283 results for: Retail and Department Stores
Correspondence
Rhodes Bros. Co. letter, September 25, 1919
Rhodes Brothers Company was a department store chain that started in 1892 as a coffee shop in Tacoma by Albert, William, Henry, and Charles Rhodes. In 1903, the brothers shifted into the department store business and expanded the business significantly. At one time there were signs on highways in Washington that said, "All roads lead to Rhodes," giving the number…
ID Number:1973.5644.10
Date:1919
Photograph
Frederick & Nelson interior, Seattle, circa 1925
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. Frederick & Nelson was one of Seattle's landmark companies for over a century, but closed in the 1990s.This interiror photo is part of a…
ID Number:1974.5923.306
Date:Circa 1925
Photograph
Frederick & Nelson interior, Seattle, circa 1925
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. Frederick & Nelson was one of Seattle's landmark companies for over a century, but it closed in the 1990s.This interior photo is part of…
ID Number:1974.5923.308
Date:Circa 1925
Photograph
Toy shop display, Seattle, circa 1940
This photo of an unnamed toy shop display is part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee moved to San Diego in 1925, and McBride continued to operate…
ID Number:1974.5923.363
Date:Circa 1940
Photograph
Toy shop display, Seattle, circa 1940
This photo of an unnamed toy shop display is part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee moved to San Diego in 1925, and McBride continued to operate…
ID Number:1974.5923.364
Date:Circa 1940
Photograph
Horse-drawn wagon in front of store, probably in Seattle, circa 1915
This photo of an unnamed store or house with a horse and buggy in front is a copy negative and part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee…
ID Number:1974.5923.369.2
Date:Circa 1915
Menu
Frederick & Nelson's Tea Room menu for Afternoon Tea, circa 1935
Frederick & Nelson's new building at 5th Avenue and Pine Street, which opened in 1918, included a large, elegantly furnished tea room on the fifth floor. With seating for 400, the tea room became Seattle's most sophisticated place for shoppers to dine. This menu features a wide range of choices for afternoon tea and is bound into a heavy, textured…
ID Number:1976.6296.1
Date:Circa 1935
Menu
Frederick & Nelson's Tea Room menu, circa 1935
Frederick & Nelson's new building at 5th Avenue and Pine Street, which opened in 1918, included a large, elegantly furnished tea room on the fifth floor. With seating for 400, the tea room became Seattle's most sophisticated place for shoppers to dine. This menu features a selection of items for lunch and is bound with a ribbon into a decorative…
ID Number:1976.6296.3.1
Date:Circa 1935
Ephemera
The "604" Third Avenue advertising card, circa 1908
The "604" Third Avenue, under proprietor Jos. Williams. offers a milk dairy and lunch room, cigars and tobaccos and "soft drinks of all kinds" as well as candy. Pale pink in color with rounded edges, this small card also boasts "all the buttermilk you can drink for a nickel!"
ID Number:1976.6296.4
Date:Circa 1908
Ephemera
Rhodes Quaker Lunch business card, circa 1925
Rhodes Department Store was located in the Arcade Building on Second Avenue in Seattle. It was opened in 1907 by Albert Rhodes and his wife, Harriet. Albert's brothers owned separate department stores under the Rhodes name in Tacoma. Albert died unexpectedly of influenza in 1921, and Harriet was then President of the Rhodes Company which she managed successfully until her…
ID Number:1976.6296.5
Date:Circa 1925