308 results for: Retail and Department Stores
Photograph
Exterior of the Bon Marché livery stables, Seattle, circa 1900
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 exterior shot is of the Bon Marché Stables (later Compton Lumber Company, today Compton Building),…
ID Number:2009.20.72
Date:Circa 1900
Photograph
Aerial photograph of Bon Marché with Christmas star and downtown extending east and north, Seattle, circa 1965
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. The holiday star hangs annually on the corner of the Bon Marché building at Fourth Avenue…
ID Number:2009.20.74
Date:Circa 1965
Architectural drawing
Bon Marché Christmas star design drawing, Seattle, circa 1957
Edward and Josephine Nordhoff opened Seattle’s Bon Marché in 1890. The department store moved and expanded over the years, and by 1929, it occupied an art-deco building on a full city block in downtown Seattle. Sometime around 1953, Bob James of the Bon Marché Display Department designed a Christmas tree and star in lights for the diagonal corner of the…
ID Number:2009.20.78.1
Date:1957
Architectural drawing
Bon Marché Christmas star design drawing, Seattle, circa 1957
Edward and Josephine Nordhoff opened Seattle’s Bon Marché in 1890. The department store moved and expanded over the years, and by 1929, it occupied an art-deco building on a full city block in downtown Seattle. Sometime around 1953, Bob James of the Bon Marché Display Department designed a Christmas tree and star in lights for the diagonal corner of the…
ID Number:2009.20.78.2
Date:1957
Architectural drawing
Bon Marché Christmas star revised design drawing, Seattle, July 17, 1957
Edward and Josephine Nordhoff opened Seattle’s Bon Marché in 1890. The department store moved and expanded over the years, and by 1929, it occupied an art-deco building on a full city block in downtown Seattle. Sometime around 1953, Bob James of the Bon Marché Display Department designed a Christmas tree and star in lights for the diagonal corner of the…
ID Number:2009.20.78.3
Date:1957
Architectural drawing
Bon Marché Christmas star colored lamps design drawing, Seattle, 1962
Edward and Josephine Nordhoff opened Seattle’s Bon Marché in 1890. The department store moved and expanded over the years, and by 1929, it occupied an art-deco building on a full city block in downtown Seattle.Sometime around 1953, Bob James of the Bon Marché Display Department designed a Christmas tree and star in lights for the diagonal corner of the building…
ID Number:2009.20.78.4
Date:1962
Serial
Bon Marché ad in The Seattle Star, August 27, 1909
In 1890, Edward and Josephine Nordhoff moved from Chicago to Seattle and opened their Bon Marché dry goods store in the Belltown neighborhood. The couple named the store after the Bon Marché in Paris. Starting with their life savings of $1,200, they gradually expanded the business, moving it downtown to the main shopping district in 1896. Their lower pricing attracted…
ID Number:2009.20.86.1
Date:1909
Photograph
Lunchtime modeling at the Bon Marché Northgate Mall store, Seattle, circa 1951
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.In 1949, the Bon Marché provided the anchor store for one of the world's first modern shopping…
ID Number:2009.20.113.1
Date:Circa 1951
Photograph
Capehart TV display at the Bon Marché Northgate Store, Seattle, circa 1951
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.In 1949, the Bon Marché provided the anchor store for one of the world's first modern shopping…
ID Number:2009.20.115.1
Date:Circa 1951
Photograph
Exterior of the Bon Marché at Second Avenue and Pike Street, Seattle, 1900
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 exterior shot of the store at Second Avenue and Pike Street shows the building before…
ID Number:2009.20.134
Date:1900