Macy's (Firm)

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This folder contains a scrapbook from 1935-1940 with promotional materials, business correspondence, and newspaper and magazine clippings for women's wear, men's wear, and children's wear made with Everfast Fabrics, under N. Erlanger, Blumgart & Co. (until 1936, and then as Everfast Fabrics, Inc.). There are promotions for Sunnidell prints, Butterick sewing patterns, Everfast Swedish prints, and the collection of prints designed by Elsa Schiaparelli, Jacques Heim, and Dilkusha.

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This folder contains a hand-illustrated portfolio from 1957 with fabric swatches, magazine clippings, and promotional materials for drapery fabrics from Everfast Fabrics sold at Macy's and featured in the February issue of Living for Young Homemakers. There are large fabric swatches, descriptions of the inspiration behind the design, and suggestions for their use. There is also an Everfast test card with swatches demonstrating its colorfastness.

Scope and Contents In this interview, Alan Reyburn talks about restuaranteuring in the context of the retail world. Reyburn ran all food operations at Bloomingdale's during the 1980s, including staff restuarants. After briefly describing his past hospitality job working for a cruise line, Reyburn explains that New York City is a restaurant city and the Bloomingdale's client is someone who considers food and dining to be part of the fashionable lifestyle. Reyburn attributes Bloomingdale's Marvin S. Traub for...

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This folder contains a scrapbook from 1959 with photographs, swatches, business correspondence, and newspaper and magazine clippings for women's wear, men's wear, and children's wear made with Everfast Fabrics and treated with Ban-Care by Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company. There are ads for Everfast Pam Pam fabric and for designs by Nancy Greer and Ship n' Shore. There are photographs of displays at Wanamaker's, Best & Co., B. Altman, and Macy's.

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This folder contains a scrapbook from 1955-1959 with newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and promotional materials for children's wear made with Everfast Fabrics. There are ads for designs by Youngland, Kate Greenaway, Tiny Town Togs, and Joseph Love. There are photographs of displays at B. Altman and Macy's.

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This folder contains mostly thank you correspondences from dept. stores (Macy's, Jacobson's, etc.)and ISOTONER products. Barbara Kling Publicity letters concerning store appearances, her employment agreement and a certificate of cooperation in the Aris Glove Co. profit-sharing plan.

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents This interview first discusses Dennis Garro's work experience leading up to his move from Macy's to Bloomingdale's in 1986. Garro briefly presents some of the main cultural differences between Macy's and Bloomingdale's as being inherenet within the California culture of Macy's and the New York City culture of Bloomingdale's. Garro shies from comparing Phil Schann (head of Macy's at the time) and Marvin S. Traub (head of Bloomingdale's at the time) other than to say that they were similar...

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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.