Black-and-white documentary photograph, in the manner of Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information work of the early 1940s, of a rural South Texas Tejano general-store porch — an older mustachioed gentleman in a pale fedora, dark jacket, white shirt, and light trousers sits leaning against a wooden porch post with his left leg crossed over his right; the storefront behind him is densely papered with early-1940s commercial signage including, from left to right, porcelain-enamel 'GARRETT'S Richer and Milder SNUFF' and 'HONEST Mild and Mellow SNUFF' signs and two tall RC Cola bottle-shaped advertising cutouts mounted on porch posts, a hand-lettered Spanish-language 'ESPAUDA Health Club / Conserve su...' window sign, window-display items including cardboard cutouts and a 'LOOK 25¢' magazine, through the door-glass 'UNION LEADER' and 'UNION STANDARD' tobacco posters with Chesterfield and Bugler tobacco ads and a 'RIPPLE' sign, an 'Ask for the best / TINSLEY'S / NATURAL LEAF' tobacco sign on the low porch railing, and — mounted squarely on the porch railing facing the street — a large dark-ground porcelain-enamel **'H AND H COFFEE'** sign whose big white serif 'H AND H' type matches the other H and H Coffee porcelain signs in the project; at the right edge a gravity-feed visible gasoline pump with a small framed photograph affixed to its tank stands in front of the rear fender and running board of a late-1930s automobile, and at the left edge a Spanish-language movie poster reading 'ALAMO / SABADO - DOMINGO / MUJER MEXICANA / ELVA SALCEDO / J.J. MARTINEZ CASADO / MARGARITA CORTES' — the 1942 Miguel Contreras Torres film, dating this photograph to 1942 or shortly after
