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Kaufmann's : the family that built pittsburgh's famed department store Marylynne Pitz and Laura Malt Schneiderman
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA/Al HF 5465 .U64 K384 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pitz, Marylynne, author.
- Schneiderman, Laura Malt, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kaufmann's Department Store--History.
- Kaufmann's Department Store.
- Department stores--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.
- Department stores.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
- Contents:
- From peddlers to prosperity
- A gilded age lifestyle
- The rise of a merchant prince
- Cracks in a marriage
- Profits and golden roses
- The prime of Edgar and Liliane
- The fellowship and Fallingwater
- Mr. Kaufmann goes to Washington
- Kaufmann's wages war
- Sweet home California
- Edgar raises the curtain
- The collapse of a marriage
- Kaufmann's, the May Company, and malls
- Time-honored traditions
- The death of downtown department stores.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822947455
- 9780822947455
- OCLC:
- 1287127812
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