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Marshall Field's [electronic resource] : the store that helped build Chicago / Gayle Soucek.

Soucek, Gayle. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781614230007 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 1614230005 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (155 p.) : ill.
  • Publisher: Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Why Marshall Field's matters -- From the farm to the city : making of a merchant -- Growth and rebirth : Field, Leiter & Company -- Fire and survival : aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire -- Change and philanthropy : the merchant's final years -- Continuing the vision : the John Shedd years -- Progress and despair : the Great Depression and the World's Fair -- From the city to the suburbs : the changing face of retail -- A child's dream : Christmas at Field's -- Winds of change : BATUS and Target -- An icon vanishes : the coming of Macy's.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Field, Marshall, 1834-1906.
Marshall Field's (Department store) > History.
Retail trade > Illinois > Chicago > History.
Merchants > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) > Economic conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) > Biography.
Genre: Electronic books.

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