There is nothing new about wanting to surprise a friend or family member with the gift you have chosen…but it used to be much harder to wrap these gifts.
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At holiday time, a special treat for the family often involved a trip downtown (or to the nearest big city) to see the store windows, talk to Santa, and admire the town Christmas tree. Major cities still have this holiday atmosphere (think of Rockefeller Center and the windows at Lord & Taylor, Bloomingdale’s, and Saks), but in smaller communities across the country the fabric of the shopping experience has been changed by the rise of big box stores.
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Made elegant clothing available to wealthy American women Pioneered concept of head-to-hem stores Made the Carnegie Look the rage for fashion-conscious women Henrietta Kanengeiser was born in 1880, the second
Hattie Carnegie (1880-1956), Successful Fashion Entrepreneur Read More »
How many innovative and important women from the late 19th and early 20th century remain in the shadows of history?
First American Woman to Build a Cosmetics Empire: Harriet Hubbard Ayer Read More »
American Snapshots, my November newsletter on “P.T. Barnum, Promoter Extraordinaire”, provided a few snippets of information about P.T. Barnum, and last week I received an email from friend, author and expert, David Carlyon, Ph.D. Carlyon is not only a theatre historian who has written a book about the very successful 19th century performer, Dan Rice (Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You’ve Never Heard Of), but he spent the early years of his career working as a clown with the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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Brownie Wise made her name using home parties to sell Tupperware. She was not the inventor of the home party sales method, but she was a master at it. This
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