John Wanamaker department store art gallery records

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John Wanamaker department store art gallery records

[ca. 1908]-1941

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Records documenting John Wanamaker's import of French painting from Parisian salons and artists to sell in his store, to keep for his private collection and to keep for his store collection. Also included is a photograph album of Rodman Wanamaker's silver collection. Included are: correspondence; customs papers; purchase and sale records; preview invitiations; inventories of works purchased for the store's collection; inventories of Wanamaker's private collection; artist files containing lists of Colin Campbell Cooper's works, photographs and clippings relating to Paul W. Bartlett's paintings, autographed photographs of Frederick Frieseke's painting, and files on Mihaly Munkacsy and Pierre Fritel. Total: 1.5 linear feet.

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Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922

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John Wanamaker was founder of a Philadelphia department store. From the description of Collection, 1779-1892. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122632980 John Wanamaker, 1838-1822. Born Philadelphia, created first department store, pioneered use of price tags, money back guarantees, newspaper ads, and white sales. Instituted employee health care, pensions, and fringe benefits. Samuel Sydney McClure, 1857-1949. Founder, editor,...

Munkácsy, Mihály, 1844-1900

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The Hungarian painter studied painting first in Arad and Budapest. Then he went to Vienna, Munich and Paris, eventually settling in Barbizon. He enjoyed great international popularity. He died in an asylum. From the description of Letter: Paris, 1879 March 14 (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84649360 ...

Cooper, Colin Campbell, Jr.

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American artist and Treasurer of the Fund. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Morgan Russell, 1920 Apr. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270525811 ...

Bartlett, Paul Wayland, 1865-1925

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Sculptor. From the description of Papers of Paul Wayland Bartlett, 1881-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131109 American expatriate sculptor. From the guide to the Paul Bartlett letter to John Shaw Billings (Director of NYPL), 1905, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Sculptor and portraitist; Paris, France and Washington, D.C. Bartlett was born in Connecticut and raised in France where he enter...

Wanamaker, Rodman, 1863-1928

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John Wanamaker (Firm)

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Wanamaker's legendary department stores were oalaces of consumption that turned shopping into an event for ordinary people. Born in Philadelphia in 1838, John Wanamaker pioneered the concept of the department store. In 1861 Wanamaker and his brother-in-law, Nathan Brown, opened Oak Hall, a men's clothing store. In 1876, intending to open a central market like London's Royal Exchange or Paris' Les Halles, he converted an abandoned Pennysylvania Railroad depot into a multipurpose clothing and spec...