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The grand emporiums : the illustrated history of America's great department stores
- Title
- The grand emporiums : the illustrated history of America's great department stores / Robert Hendrickson.
- Author
- Hendrickson, Robert, 1933-
- Publication
- New York : Stein and Day, [1979]
- ©1979
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Details
- Description
- viii, 488 pages, 40 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Roots : ancestors of the great department stores . From peddlers to grand emporiums -- Department stores from past to present. The founding fathers ; Minding the store : early operations, from floorwalkers, drummers and cash children to pneumatic tubes ; The big stores : stories of famous full-line department stores and how they grew ; For the mass with class : the high-fashion or specialty department stores ; Everybody loves a bargain : from schlock shops to discount department stores ; Hurry, hurry, hurry ... send no money ... satisfaction guaranteed : the mail-order department stores ; The urge to merge and "the chain store menace" : American chain store development ; The malling of Main Street : suburban and city shopping centers ; Does Macy's tell Gimbels : ads, displays, dummies, parades, Santas, reindeer and all manner of promotions past and present ; Rip-offs in wonderland : boosters, snitches, con artists, errant Easter bunnies and peeping toms ; Workers in paradise and the great American customer : including strikes, unions, credit cards, and many unhappy returns of the day -- A galaxy of grand emporiums. More great American stores : past, present, and future ; The great American department store pages of superlatives -- An honor roll of other notable department stores.
- ISBN
- 0812825160
- 9780812825169
- 0812824160 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 78007555
- OCLC
- ocm03842610
- 3842610
- SCSB-108128
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library