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First floor departments (2)

ca. 1930

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First floor departments (2)
  • Title
  • First floor departments (2)
  • Date
  • ca. 1930
  • Identifier
  • 20181026-hpichswp-0037
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP_371_B003_F007_I03
  • Description
  • This view of Kaufmann's first floor departments, busy with customers. The view shows the Art Deco details included in the store's 1920s renovation by architectural firm Janssen & Cocken, including glass display cases acquired from Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and Carrara glass columns.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Kaufmann's Department Store.
    Department stores--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Art deco (Architecture)--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Robinson, Boardman (1876-1952)
    Janssen, Benno (1874-1964)
    Cocken, William York.
    Glass construction--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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