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Kaufmann's : the family that built pittsburgh's famed department store

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Main Authors: Pitz, Marylynne, (Author), Schneiderman, Laura Malt, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
Subjects and Genres:
Kaufmann's Department Store > History.
Department stores > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • From peddlers to prosperity
  • A gilded age lifestyle
  • The rise of a merchant prince
  • Cracks in a marriage
  • Profits and golden roses
  • The prime of Edgar and Liliane
  • The fellowship and Fallingwater
  • Mr. Kaufmann goes to Washington
  • Kaufmann's wages war
  • Sweet home California
  • Edgar raises the curtain
  • The collapse of a marriage
  • Kaufmann's, the May Company, and malls
  • Time-honored traditions
  • The death of downtown department stores.

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