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Glosser Brothers Department Store

1924-1950

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Glosser Brothers Department Store
  • Title
  • Glosser Brothers Department Store
  • Creator
  • Heffley, Russell H.
  • Date
  • 1924-1950
  • Identifier
  • 200905.324.HF
  • Description
  • View of the grocery department of Glosser Brothers Department Store ("Glossers") featuring the meat section. The Glossers, a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia, opened the store in the early 1900s with a modest loan of $200. The store went on to become a Johnstown institution specializing in men's and women's clothing as well as housewares and groceries.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    photographic prints
    gelatin silver prints
  • Subject
  • Department stores
    Grocery trade
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Russell H. Heffley Photograph Collection, 1924- ca. 1950s
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Russell H. Heffley Photographs
  • Rights Information
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