Bon Marché Collection 1889-1999 1905-1970

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Bon Marché Collection 1889-1999 1905-1970

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Scrapbooks, ledgers, photographs, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and papers from the Bon Marché (now Macy’s) department store located in Seattle, Washington

13 boxes including 10 oversize

eng,

Museum of History & Industry Sophie Frye Bass Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6372061

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Macy's, Inc.

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Bon Marché (Department store)

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In 1890 Edward and Josephine Nordhoff moved from Chicago to Seattle and opened their store the Bon Marché. The name means “good market” and was chosen as a reference to the Maison à Boucicault au Bon Marché, a store Nordhoff had greatly admired as a young man living in Paris. Originally located in the Belltown district of Seattle at First and Cedar streets it moved downtown in 1896. Starting with the Nordhoff’s savings of $1,200, thirty-three years later in 1923 annual sales were up...