Newark Department Stores Collection

Box #1. Hahnes folder: "My little red Indian book" (children's booklet); Gallery of Fame (leaflet of American heroes); Catalog (1976); KRESGE: Christmas catalogs (1954, 1963); various issues of magazine (1945-46); ad for Christmas folders [n.d.]; L.S. PLAUT: Pocket calendar and stamp case (1 1/2" x 2", 1916); Urban League "nigger brown" case (William Ashby memoirs and letter from L. S. Plaut, 1921); "Home Talk" (July 1899 issue); 40th anniversary celebration, The Bee Hive Musical Monthly (March/April 1896, March 1897); "Welcome to Kresge-Newark" staff manual (1956); Medallion Portrait punch cards and tickets (undated); Story of Hahne and Co's Great Twelve Acre Store, 53rd Anniversary (c. 1911).

Box #2. Counter Currents publication of L. Bamberger & Co. (April, 1946), "One of America's Great Stores" by Frank Liveright (with John Cunningham, 1958, from Liveright's "Early History of L. Bamberger & Co."), Catalog (1976), "The Heritage of 3000 years of Art in Modern Rugs and Carpets" (booklet, 1929), Bamberger Scrapbooks (mounted newspaper clippings, 1912-1916, 1919, 1920-22, 1922, 1923-24, 1926, 1927-28, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932-36), Bamberger card for Sidney Rackenberg rugs dept. (gift of Brendan Nolan, Brielle, NJ in 2013), mini calendar for L.S. Plaut & Co. (1916), Bamberger published book, "The Heritage of 3000 years of art in modern rugs and carpets" by Bigelow-Hartford; "53 years in Bambergers" article Apr 1946 in Counter Currents; Plate featuring an image of Robert Treat produced for Bamberger's, commemorating Newark's 250th anniversary in 1916; letter to employees from H.W. Brightman, manager of Bamberger's Basement (9 April 1935); price tag [n.d.] from Bamberger's; "Absence" card for Bamberger's employee Alex J. Eagleson (stamped 1 June 1935)