308 results for: Retail and Department Stores
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Make the bosses take the losses! flier, Seattle, May 1975
In May 1975, Eddie Bauer, a prominent Seattle clothing manufacturer, fired over 70 garment workers without notice. Most were women - members of the United Garment Workers Union Local 17. On May 17, some two-dozen people picketed the downtown Seattle Eddie Bauer store in protest. The laid off workers blamed the company for firing them because of their union membership,…
ID Number:2002.23.3.54.1
Date:1975
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Street clock outside Carroll's Jewelers, Seattle, February 1975
This street clock was commissioned by Thomas J. Carroll, the founder of Carroll’s Fine Jewelry, established in 1895 in Seattle. The clock was made by Seattle clockmakers Joseph Mayer and Sons and stood for decades at the jewelry store’s entrance at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street. Carroll's Fine Jewelry closed in 2008, and that same year the clock was moved…
ID Number:2002.46.1358.22
Date:1975
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Frederick & Nelson, Seattle, circa 1918
The first Frederick & Nelson retail store opened in 1889, right after Seattle's great fire. By 1916, the company was doing so well that it built a large new store at Fifth Avenue and Pike Street, which many people thought was too far out of town. Frederick & Nelson was one of Seattle's landmark companies for over a century. It…
ID Number:2002.48.656
Date:Circa 1918
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Retailers manning booth at Pure Food Show, Seattle, February 19, 1908
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which required manufacturers meet certain standards of purity, and that information printed on food or drugs labels be accurate and true. One of Seattle's finest department stores at the time, Bon Marche, began hosting an annual food show where suppliers could…
ID Number:2004.61.1
Date:1908
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Duncan & Sons catalog, circa 1920
Duncan & Sons, Inc. sold supplies for shoes and sold and repaired leather saddles and harnesses in Seattle from 1898-2007. The company was an important local business and was a large city employer in the first part of the 20th century. The catalog pictured here gives an excellent look into the business as it was in the 1920s. The catalog…
ID Number:2007.36.1
Date:Circa 1920
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Pacific Outfitting Company employees outside storefront, Seattle, circa 1915
The Pacific Outfitting Company of Seattle was founded in 1907 by Polish immigrant Alfred Shemanski (1875-1966). The store was one of several in a chain begun by Alfred and his brothers, including the Eastern Outfitting Company in Portland started by Joseph Shemanski. The Pacific opened as a clothing store for women, soon expanding to sell men’s apparel as well. The…
ID Number:2008.3.18.2
Date:Circa 1915
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Pacific Outfitting Company clothing display and customers, Seattle, circa 1930
The Pacific Outfitting Company of Seattle was founded in 1907 by Polish immigrant Alfred Shemanski (1875-1966). The store was one of several in a chain begun by Alfred and his brothers, including the Eastern Outfitting Company in Portland started by Joseph Shemanski. The Pacific opened in Seattle in a storefront at 422 Pike Street as a clothing store for women,…
ID Number:2008.3.18.3
Date:Circa 1930
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Pacific Outfitting Company storefront display welcoming Loyal Order of Moose, Seattle, circa 1920
The Pacific Outfitting Company of Seattle was founded in 1907 by Polish immigrant Alfred Shemanski (1875-1966). The store was one of several in a chain begun by Alfred and his brothers, including the Eastern Outfitting Company in Portland started by Joseph Shemanski. The Pacific opened as a clothing store for women, soon expanding to sell men’s apparel as well. The…
ID Number:2008.3.18.10
Date:Circa 1920
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Pacific Outfitting Company employees, Seattle, circa 1925
The Pacific Outfitting Company of Seattle was founded in 1907 by Polish immigrant Alfred Shemanski (1875-1966). The store was one of several in a chain begun by Alfred and his brothers, including the Eastern Outfitting Company in Portland started by Joseph Shemanski. The Pacific opened as a clothing store for women, soon expanding to sell men’s apparel as well. The…
ID Number:2008.3.18.16
Date:Circa 1925
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Santa Claus and "sleigh" in front of the Bon Marché building on Second Avenue and Pike Street, Seattle, circa 1915
The Bon Marché was founded in 1890 by German immigrant Edward Nordhoff and his wife Josephine. Originally located in Seattle’s Belltown district at First Avenue and Cedar Street, in 1896 it moved to a more central location downtown at Second Avenue and Pike Street. This photo shows Santa Claus standing atop a wagon in front of the Bon Marché building.…
ID Number:2009.20.68
Date:Circa 1915