Federated Department Stores' records of Marshall Field & Company, ca. 1875-2003.

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Federated Department Stores' records of Marshall Field & Company, ca. 1875-2003.

Office files, product catalogs, newsletters and other publications, personnel files, photographs, and other operating records of the Marshall Field & Company department store chain and its successor Marshall Field's, based in Chicago (Ill.) with its central store on State Street in the Loop.

ca. 1600 linear ft. (ca. 1380 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8085349

Chicago History Museum

Related Entities

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Marshall Field's (Department store)

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111 North State Street (Chicago, Ill.)

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Macy's, Inc.

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Federated Department Stores

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Developed by businessman Marshall Field out of various partnerships that operated dry goods stores in the 1850s-1870s, the store adopted the name Marshall Field & Company in January 1881. In 1982, Field's was acquired by BATUS (British-American Tobacco U.S.). In 1992, Field's was acquired by Dayton Hudson Corporation. Dayton Hudson became Target Corporation in 2000. Target sold Field's to May Department Stores in 2004, which merged with Federated Department Stores, the operator of Macy's dep...

Marshall Field & Company

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