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The Great Merchants : The Stories of Twenty Famous Retail Operations and the People Who Made Them Great
- Title
- The Great Merchants : The Stories of Twenty Famous Retail Operations and the People Who Made Them Great / by Tom Mahoney.
- Author
- Mahoney, Tom
- Publication
- New York : Harper & Brothers, [1955].
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- ix, 340 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages vii-ix) and index.
- Contents
- Peddlers to palaces: the evolution of American retailing -- The Hudson's Bay Company: a venerable enterprise reborn -- Brooks Brothers: America's oldest clothing store -- Tiffany's: the most famous jewelry store in the world -- The Singer Sewing Machine Company: world-wide pioneer of installment selling -- Filene's: the world's largest specialty store -- F. & R. Lazarus & Company: Ohio's famous department store dynasty -- Marshall Field & Company: elegance for the Middle West -- Brentano's: "booksellers to the world" -- Macy's New York: the biggest store in the world -- The Great A & P: world's largest food retailer -- Rich's: "the store that married a city" -- The J.L. Hudson Company: Detroit's colossal store -- Sears, Roebuck and Company: the world's biggest general store -- Lane Bryant: maternity and special size fashion pioneer -- J.C. Penney Company: a Main Street chain built on partnerships -- Bullock's ad I. Magnin; glamour pioneers of the West -- Neiman-Marcus: the pride of Texas -- L.L. bean, Inc.: sporting good by mail from Maine -- Ohrbach's, Inc.: "a business in millions, a profit in pennies" -- Webb's City: "the world's most unusual drugstore."
- LCCN
- 54012187
- OCLC
- ocm00551478
- 551478
- SCSB-282513
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library