All posts tagged "department stores"
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30.7K18Business and LaborSix Historic Downtown Department Stores
Downtown department stores used to provide a special shopping experience, offering elegance and practicality. People dressed up when they went to visit...
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11.4K3bostonR. H. Macy Starts His Thanksgiving Parade in Massachusetts
R. H. Macy took a long and winding path to becoming the merchant prince of New York City. Early in his journey,...
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7.3K4Crime and ScandalJennie Cramer – New Haven’s “Beautiful Victim” of 1881
Jennie Cramer and her mother Christina had an awful fight on Thursday, August 4, 1881. Jennie and her friend Blanche Douglass had...
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5.8K9Flashback PhotosFranklin Roosevelt Celebrates Franksgiving, er, Thanksgiving
On Aug. 14, 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt invented a new holiday: Franksgiving. He did it by declaring Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the...
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8.3K7Business and LaborBrownie Wise, The Brains Behind Tupperware
In 1950, Earl Tupper was sitting in his Leominster, Mass., office struggling with how to get his business off the ground when...
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16.6K79Business and LaborWhen Downtown Department Stores Spelled Christmas
Generations of New Englanders remember fondly the glorious downtown department stores at Christmas. Those great retail palaces brought magic to the holidays...
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7.0K7Business and LaborBridgeport Women Workers and the Birth of the Eight Hour Day
On one summer day in 1915, thousands of women walked off the job in Bridgeport, Conn., demanding the eight hour day and...
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