Jerry Miller shoe designs, promotional material.

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Jerry Miller shoe designs, promotional material.

Housed in 27 boxes and 2 folders, the collection comprises 4752 sketches in pencil, ink and gouache, 102 pattern pieces, 224 ads primarily from The New York times, 47 photographs primarily from the Margaret Jerrold retrospective exhibition held at Lord and Taylor in 1982, assorted press clippings, and 43 spiral-bound shoe forecasts from the 1950's and 1960's from the Mademoiselle Shoe Co.

5.5 linear ft.

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Steiger, Walter.

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Bowler, Moya

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Clark, Margaret Mary

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Mademoiselle Shoe Co

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Margaret Jerrold (Firm)

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Miller, Jerry

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Grandson of I. Miller, the founder of a shoe manufacturing firm established in the late 1800's, Jerry Miller began his career in shoe fashions in the late 1940's when he worked for Mademoiselle Shoe Co., a forecasting firm. Miller married the Parsons-trained Margaret Clark and in the early 1950's they set up their own company, the Margaret Clark Design Studio. In 1954, the two founded their own wholesaling shoe company, Shoe Biz, selling Clark's design under the label "Margaret Jerr...