Dealer Information Needed- Russell Sporting Goods Co.

[Eric Estes]

This may be the old store front in the background?
http://durhammuseum.contentdm.oclc.o...d/20382/rec/11
Another view from a few years earlier?
http://durhammuseum.contentdm.oclc.o...id/11493/rec/8

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Raymond Russell died at age 45 on November 22, 1953. He was president of RSG, the largest sporting goods retailer in Nebraska. It was started in 1876. He left wife Margaret, son Rusty and daughter Babs.
His brother, another officer, had died a year earlier. I imagine the store wound down thereafter.

[Researcher]

the largest sporting goods retailer in Nebraska

Pretty bold. I'd have thought the Collins Gun Company (J.S. Collins, Frank S. Parmelee) held sway in the 1880s and 90s.

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Dave my typo in copying obit- Omaha Nebraska's biggest sporting goods retailer.