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Bonwit Teller & Co.

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1895-

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

1939, 1939

 oversize folder
Identifier: SC.411.1.49
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1939 with newspaper clippings for women's wear made with Everfast Fabrics. The ads are primarily for ready to wear and Butterick sewing patterns, with a focus on several Butterick-Everfast fashion shows, Trinka Van Dorn at Bonwit Teller, and New Amsterdam-inspired cottons designed by Gwenyth Waugh.

Dates: 1939

Bonwit Teller scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: SC.391
Scope and Contents

This collection holds scrapbooks of the firm's advertising for women's day and evening fashions, including newspaper clippings, from 1957 through 1960. Designers featured in the advertisements include Harvey Berin, Jo Copeland, Philip Mangone, Claire McCardell, Molly Parnis, Maurice Rentner, Herbert Sondheim, Pauline Trigère, and Ben Zuckman.

Dates: 1957-1960

Catalogs, 1961-1963, 1961-1963

 folder
Identifier: SC.72.1.1
Scope and Contents

This folder contains approximately 60 catalogs from department stores, including Macy's, Lord and Taylor, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue.

Dates: 1961-1963

Cottons, Ads 1946-1947 / Rayons, Ads 1946-1947 - 1, 1946-1947

 folder
Identifier: SC.411.1.118
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1946-1947 with newspaper clippings for women's ready to wear and some children's wear made with Everfast Fabrics. There are designs by Claire McCardell, Ceil Chapman, and Carolyn Scnhurer in Portuguese Plaids, Chambray, and Seersucker fabrics, sold at B. Altman, Franklin Simon, Macy's, Bonwit Teller, and other department stores around the country. The scrapbook is divided into a section with cotton ads and a section with rayon ads.

Dates: 1946-1947

Cottons, Ads 1946-1947 / Rayons, Ads 1946-1947 - 2, 1946-1947

 folder
Identifier: SC.411.1.119
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1946-1947 with newspaper clippings for women's ready to wear and some children's wear made with Everfast Fabrics. There are designs by Claire McCardell, Ceil Chapman, and Carolyn Scnhurer in Portuguese Plaids, Chambray, and Seersucker fabrics, sold at B. Altman, Franklin Simon, Macy's, Bonwit Teller, and other department stores around the country. The scrapbook is divided into a section with cotton ads and a section with rayon ads.

Dates: 1946-1947

Department store window photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SC.309
Scope and Contents

This collection holds photographs of store windows from Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bonwit Teller, Best & Co., Macy's, Franklin Simon, B. Altman & Co., and others.

Dates: 1943-1966

Emily Wilkens Originals in Everfast Fabrics, 1944, 1944

 folder
Identifier: SC.411.1.61
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1944 with newspaper clippings and other promotional materials announcing Emily Wilkens' designs for teenagers, called "Young Originals."

Dates: 1944

Emily Wilkens Young Originals, Everfast, 1944, 1944

 oversize folder
Identifier: SC.411.1.62
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1944 with newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, promotional materials, fabric swatches, and labels for Emily Wilkens' designs for teenagers made with Everfast Fabrics, called "Young Originals." There is also a price list and a list of publications featuring "Young Originals."

Dates: 1944

Erin, 1944-1946, 1944-1946

 folder
Identifier: SC.411.1.83
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1944-1946 with newspaper clippings and photographs of women's wear, men's wear, and children's wear made with Erin, a rayon fabric, by Everfast Fabrics. There are photographs of displays at Macy's, Bonwit Teller, B. Altman, and Wallach's.

Dates: 1944-1946

Everfast Fabrics, Women's Wear, 1934 - 1, 1934

 folder
Identifier: SC.411.1.28
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1934 with photographs, fabric swatches, and newspaper and magazine clippings from Everfast Fabrics under N. Erlanger, Blumgart & Co. There are ads for women's wear and children's wear, with a focus on beach wear and resort wear.

Dates: 1934