Erna Rockwood Scrapbooks 1923-1993 1961-1973

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Erna Rockwood Scrapbooks 1923-1993 1961-1973

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Erna Rockwood, a lifelong Austin, Texas resident, was born in 1911 to Kathe and Sigmund Guttman. The collection consists of three scrapbooks spanning the years 1923 to 1993 composed principally of photographs, correspondence and other memorabilia highlighting her thirty-six year career with Sears, Roebuck and Company.

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Austin History Center , Austin Public Library, 810 Guadalupe Street, Austin, Texas, 78701.

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Sears, Roebuck and Company

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Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, and reincorporated by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald in 1906. Formerly based at the Sears Tower in Chicago and currently headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the operation began as a mail ordering catalog company and began opening retail locations in 1925. The first location was in Chicago, Illinois. In 2005, the...

Rockwood, Erna Guttman.

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Rockwood, Erna

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A native of Austin, Erna Guttman Rockwood was born April 2, 1911, to Kathe and Sigmund Guttman. She attended Palm Elementary School, John T. Allan High School and Austin High School. She married Robert F. Rockwood. Rockwood started working at the Sears, Roebuck and Company Congress Avenue store in 1936 in the Cashiering Department. In her thirty-six year career she worked in all operating offices before retiring from the Audit Department in 1973. In addition to her caree...