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Service and style : how the American department store fashioned the middle class / Jan Whitaker.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HF5465.U5 W55 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitaker, Jan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Department stores--United States--History--20th century.
- Department stores.
- Middle class--United States--History--20th century.
- Middle class.
- Department stores--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Department stores--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition, first U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Whitaker presents an entertaining and fully illustrated history of the department store--the center of American cultural and economic life.
- Contents:
- 1 Behemoth to Dinosaur 7
- 2 Lower, Upper, Middle 31
- 3 Women's Wear 53
- 4 Bricks and Mortar 77
- 5 Window-Shopping 109
- 6 Razzle-Dazzle 131
- 7 Floorwalkers, Fashionists, and Founders 159
- 8 The Goods 189
- 9 At Your Service 219
- 10 Children's Wonderland 245
- 11 Fashioning the Teen Market 273
- 12 Everything for the Home 297
- Index of Stores 332.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-331).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0312326351
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