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LEADER: 02711cam 2200409 i 4500
001 ocm11476450
003 OCoLC
005 20220812035304.0
008 841211t19801979nyuaf 001 0 eng d
010 $z 78007555
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050 4 $aHF5465.U5$bH46 1980
082 04 $a381.06573
100 1 $aHendrickson, Robert,$d1933-
245 14 $aThe grand emporiums :$bthe illustrated history of America's great department stores /$cRobert Hendrickson.
250 $a1st Scarborough books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bStein and Day,$c1980, ©1979.
300 $aviii, 488 pages, 40 unnumbered leaves of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"A Scarborough book."
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aFrom 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.
650 0 $aDepartment stores$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 6 $aGrands magasins$zÉtats-Unis$xHistoire.
650 7 $aDepartment stores.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00890783
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
938 $aBaker & Taylor$bBKTY$c9.95$d7.46$i0812860926$n0000517655$sactive
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n718959
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948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN IME - 44 OTHER HOLDINGS