Abbott, Merkt and Company records, 1906-1994.

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...

United Parcel Service

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Copeland, Novak & Israel

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Woodward & Lothrop

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Woodward and Lothrop, "Woodies," or W & L, was a Washington, D.C., family owned retail store located at 10th & 11th Streets between F and G Streets, NW. Founders Samuel Walter Woodward (1848-1917) and Alvin Mason Lothrop (1847-1912), opened a dry goods store in Chelsea, Mass., in 1873, with six clerks. Seeking a larger market in 1880, they moved to Washington, D.C., and established the Boston House, Woodward, Lothrop, and Cochran, at 705 Market Space, NW. Five years later, they moved to ...

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...

Abraham & Straus

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Abraham & Straus was a major department store founded in Brooklyn by Abraham Abraham and Joseph Wechsler in 1865. Originally called Wechsler & Abraham and located at 285 Fulton Street, the store was so successful that it moved to a new and larger location at the corner of Fulton and Hoyt Streets in 1885. The name of the store changed to Abraham & Straus in 1893 when the Straus family, partners of Macy's department stores, bought out Wechsler's interest in the store. By 1965, Abraham ...

Sinclair and Valentine Company.

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Hecht Company

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Western Union Telegraph Company

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The bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale were both involved in the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia, Alaska and Russia to survey areas where the Western Union Telegraph Company planned to construct a telegraph line linking America and Europe. The line was never completed. Charles S. Bulkley was Engineer-in-Chief and Charles M. Scammon was Chief of Marine. The bark Golden Gate was the flagship of the expedition from June 1865 to March 1866, after which the clipper s...

Lord & Taylor

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The donor, Joseph DeAngelis, claims that these plans date from 1914 but evidence seems to indicate they date from the 1920's, probably 1928. From the description of Lord & Taylor floor plans. (Fashion Institute of Tech Library). WorldCat record id: 122592206 ...

Strawbridge & Clothier

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Department store; opened 1868 in Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Strawbridge & Clothier collection, 1959-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70978891 Strawbridge & Clothier was a major department store chain in the Greater Philadelphia area focused on a middle-class clientele. The firm was founded as a partnership by Justus C. Strawbridge and Isaac H. Clothier on July 1, 1868, and incorporated on February 14, 1922. The firm was operated on Quaker principle...

G. Fox and Company (Hartford, Conn.)

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Amiaga, Gil.

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Garden State Plaza (Paramus, N.J.)

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Willowbrook Shopping Center (Wayne, N.J.)

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B. Gertz, Inc.

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Raymond Loewy Associates.

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United States Postal Service

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Fuller was born in Mass. on Aug. 13, 1787. He moved to N.Y. (State) where he served as a member of the N.Y. Assembly and Senate. In 1837 he moved to Adrian (Mich.), where he served as a Representative from Lenawee County and Speaker of the House, 1841. Fuller also served as Assist. Postmaster under Pres. Harrison. He later returned to N.Y. (State). From the description of Correspondence, 1842,1867. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 43624422 Lonnie Busch illust...

Tatlow, Richard H., III.

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Garland, Roger.

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United States. War Department

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Marcy served as Secretary of War under James K. Polk, 1845-1849. From the description of William L. Marcy letter : Washington [D.C.], to Col. J.D. Stevenson, New York City, ALS, 1846 June 26. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 43771263 Officer, Second U.S. Cavalry, 1868-1892. From the description of Report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane, 1870 Dec.15. (Montana State University Bozeman Library). WorldCat record id: 43955079 U.S. gov...

Landmark Shopping Center (Alexandria, Va.)

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Saks & Company (New York, N.Y.)

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United States. Bureau of Public Roads

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John F. Kennedy International Airport

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United States. Public Works Administration

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The Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project to improve navigation on and provide hydro-electric power from the Santee and Cooper Rivers was authorized by the South Carolina legislature in 1934. Federal approval for the Project was granted in 1935 and construction takes place from 1939-1941; power generation begins in 1942. Fossil fuel generating stations constructed in 1951, 1966, 1972, 1977 and 1981 and a nuclear plant, in cooperation with South Carolina Electric & Gas, opened i...

Macy's (Firm)

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Kahn & Jacobs.

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Schwartzman, Daniel.

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Abbott, Merkt and Company.

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Founded in 1923 in New York City by Hunley Abbott and Oswald L. Merkt as an engineering and construction service for industrial plants, Abbott, Merkt and Company became one of the leading architecture and engineering firms on the East Coast after World War II, acquiring major commissions for commercial and industrial and commercial buildings and civil infrastructure in the United States and internationally. Richard H. Tatlow, III was president from 1945 to 1985, later joined on the ...

Pan American World Airways, Inc.

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Bloomingdale's (Firm)

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Oliver/Breyer Design Associates.

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Ashley, Edward Everett, 1906-

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Robertson, Edwin L.

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Monmouth Shopping Center (Eatontown, N.J.)

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Le Maire, Eleanor.

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Gimbel Brothers

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Adam Gimbel established family in the retail business when he opened a store in Vincennes, Indiana in 1842. His sons, including Jacob, started the Gimbel Brothers firm. Gimbel Brothers began in Milwaukee in 1887 and later expanded to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and New York. Horace Saks sold Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks Thirty-fourth Street stores to Bernard Gimbel in 1923 for Gimbel stock. Gimbels Southgate was the first suburban Gimbels store in 1954. Gimbels merged with Schuster's Department Stor...

B. Altman & Co.

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Department store founded in 1865 by Benjamin Altman. Upon Altman's death, Michael Friedsam succeeded him as president of the company in 1913 and served until his death in 1931. From the description of Records, 1876-1955 (bulk 1881-1933). (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58757658 ...

Stoller, Ezra

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Architectural photographer Ezra Stoller was born in Chicago on May 16, 1915. He graduated in 1938 from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at New York University, where his interest in photography began. He received the AIA Gold Medal for Photography in 1961. Stoller died October 29, 2004, at his home in Williamstown, Mass., following complications of a stroke. From the description of Ezra Stoller Collection, 1947, 1987 (bulk 1947) (Palm Springs Public Library). WorldCat recor...

Bamberger's (Firm)

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Morganelli, Heumann & Rudd.

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Newark International Airport

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Harrington & Cortelyou.

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