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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162843203321

Autore

Savage Letitia Stuart

Titolo

Kaufmann's : the big store in Pittsburgh / / Letitia Stuart Savage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charleston, South Carolina : , : The History Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-62585-776-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

381.1410973

Soggetti

Department stores - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Retailing

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

Pennsylvania Pittsburgh

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 155) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Meet me under the clock -- A new "commercial baby" -- The big store -- A modern department store -- Surviving the Depression -- Kaufmann's goes to war -- The postwar boom -- Christmas at Kaufmann's -- Working at the big store -- Kaufmann's in the community -- Moving to suburbia -- Memories of Kaufmann's -- Appendix : Kaufmann's trivia timeline.