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Kaufmann's Open House

ca. November 1955

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Kaufmann's Open House
  • Title
  • Kaufmann's Open House
  • Date
  • ca. November 1955
  • Identifier
  • 20181026-hpichswp-0008
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP_371_B001_F013_I02
  • Description
  • An Open House at Kaufmann's Department Store celebrated the store's grand reopening after expansions to the store and service departments were completed in 1955. The celebration was attended by approximately 1200 guests. Kaufmann's models wore 1871 fashions to honor the store's founding year. Pictured are Morton J. May, May Company chairman; David Scholl, William Taylor Company president; an unidentified Kaufmann's model; Samuel Rosenberg, May Company general manager; Irwin D. Wolf; and David Geller, May Company controller.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Kaufmann's Department Store.
    Department stores--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Kaufmann's Department Store Photographs, c1880-2001, MSP 371, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Kaufmann's Department Store Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • 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.
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