Macy's (Firm)
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1858 (date of establishment)
Biography
Macy's is an American department store founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. In 1994 it became a division of the Dayton based Federated Department Stores and became affiliated with Blomingdale's department store chain. As of 2015, Macy's was the top U.S. department store chain by price sales. The flagship store is located at Herald Square in New York City.
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
The Everfast Story: Lord & Taylor, House Beautiful Magazine, Fall 1957 and Macy's, Domestic Department, Fall 1957, 1957
folder
Identifier: SC.411.1.186
Scope and Contents
This folder contains a scrapbook from 1957 with newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and fabric swatches for drapery and furnishing fabrics from Everfast Fabrics. There are photographs of displays at Macy's and Lord & Taylor.
Dates:
1957
The Story of Everfast, 1938-1943, 1938-1943
oversize folder
Identifier: SC.411.1.48
Scope and Contents
This folder contains a hand-illustrated portfolio documenting important milestones in the history of Everfast Fabrics, starting with the first color fast cottons in 1921, and covering the first color fast linens in 1922, the first color fast printed cotton and linen fabrics in 1925, the first Evershrunk cottons in 1935, the first Evershrunk linens in 1936, and the first Everfast rayons in 1939. There are fabric swatches representing each of these milestones. There is a list of stores that...
Dates:
1938-1943