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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11476450 Title: The grand emporiums : the illustrated history of America's great department stores Author: Robert Hendrickson Publisher: New York : Stein and Day, 1980, ©1979. ISBN/ISSN: 0812860926 9780812860924 OCLC:11476450

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The grand emporiums : the illustrated history of America's great department stores

Author:	Robert Hendrickson
Publisher:	New York : Stein and Day, 1980, ©1979.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1st Scarborough books edView all editions and formats
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Subjects	Department stores -- United States -- History. Department stores. United States.
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Genre/Form:	History
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Robert Hendrickson Find more information about:
ISBN:	0812860926 9780812860924
OCLC Number:	11476450
Notes:	"A Scarborough book." Includes index.
Description:	viii, 488 pages, 40 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:	From peddlers to grand emporiums -- The founding fathers -- Minding the store: early operations, from floorwalkers, drummers, and cash children to pneumatic tubes -- The big stores: stories of famous full-line department stores and how they grew -- For the mass with class: the high-fashion or specialty department stores -- Everybody loves a bargain: from shlock shops to discount department stores -- Hurry, hurry, hurry ... send no money ... satisfaction guaranteed: the mail-order department stores -- The urge to merge and "The chain store menace": American chain store development -- The malling of Main Street: suburban and city shopping centers -- Does Macy's tell Gimbels: ads, displays, dummies, parades, santas, reindeer and all manner of promotions past and present -- Rip-offs in wonderland: boosters, snitches, con artists, errant Easter bunnies and peeping toms -- Workers in paradise and the Great American customer: including strikes, unions, credit cards, and many unhappy returns of the day -- More great American stores -- past, present, and future -- The Great American department store pages of superlatives -- An honor roll of other notable department stores.
Responsibility:	Robert Hendrickson.

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