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Guide to the Roth Carpet and Floors Records 1950s-2000s
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- Title
- Roth Carpet and Floors records 1950-2000
- Subject
- Roth, Bernard, Roth Carpet and Floors (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Jews--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Floods--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1936, Interior decoration--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Stores, Retail--Allegheny County--Pennsylvania, Advertising--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- The Roth Carpet and Floors records contain newspaper advertisements, interior and exterior photographs of Roth stores, audio recordings of Roth radio advertisements, and an oral history given by Bernard Roth. The newspaper advertisements are primarily full page advertisements that highlight Roth sales and promotions. They were published between the 1950s and the 2000s in local papers such as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Press, North Hills Record, Allegheny Bulletin, and Jewish Chronicle. There are photographs of the exterior and interior of Roth stores in Monroeville, Mt. Lebanon, and in both the North and South Hills. These depict the store buildings, outdoor carpet and rug sales, showroom floors and inventories, and some carpet cleaning images. Two CDs and over 20 cassette tapes contain Roth radio advertisements and promotions. Bernard Roth recorded his history of the business in 1993, and documents the history of the business, as well as his involvement in its development. A typed transcript is included in the collection., Roth Carpet and Floors records, 1950-2000, MSS 0814, Rauh Jewish Archives, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Richard Roth Gift 2010 2010.0142, Roth Carpet and Floors was a family-owned business which began in the 1930s as a rug-cleaning operation. The business expanded into rug and carpet sales in the 1950s, and at its peak, Bernard Roth owned four stores in and around Pittsburgh, Pa. He managed the company until his son, Richard Roth, assumed control in 1985. Roth Carpet and Floors closed in 2009., Gift of Richard Roth., Processed MSS 0814 07/12 A. Toner, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Roth Carpet and Floors (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1950-2000
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 5.50 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:806296081, pitt:US-QQS-mss0814
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss0814
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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