Window Shop (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Window Shop (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Window Shop (Cambridge, Mass.)
Window Shop Gift and Dress Shop (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Window Shop Gift and Dress Shop (Cambridge, Mass.)
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The Window Shop opened in Cambridge, Mass., in 1939 to offer employment to and raise money for refugees from Germany and Austria. It developed into a restaurant and gift shop, managed by Elsa Brändström Ulich; in the mid 1940s, it added a Friendship House, which had a library and held lectures and English lessons; and provided medical insurance, retirement pensions, grants-in-aid, and scholarships. After unsuccessful attempts to aid Hungarian refugees in 1956 and Cubans in 1962, and faced with a deficit, the business closed and the property was sold to the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. The profits of the sale were transferred to the Window-Shop Inc. Scholarship Fund.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/148124356
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2007049166
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/no2007049166
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United States
Advertising
African Americans
Americanization
Buildings
Business enterprises
Charities
Employee assistance programs
Employee fringe benefit
Students, Foreign
Fund raising
Gift shops
Immigrants
Nonprofit organizations
Old age pensions
Personnel management
Political refugees
Refugees
Restaurants
Scholarships
Social service
Social service finance
Social work with immigrants
Specialty stores
Student aid
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World War, 1939-1945
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Massachusetts--Cambridge
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United States
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Cambridge (Mass.)
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