Remembering Marshall Field's
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Catalogs from 1975 and 1973
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T reasures uncovered from the 1975 Marshall Field's Christmas catalog: First, the ooh and aahs. In honor of the upcoming Bicentennial, a...
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Pacesetter Shop
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One of the most charming things about old department stores is how they worked to make you feel you were entering a small boutique shop ever...
Friday, April 9, 2010
A Walk Through Marshall Field's in 1946
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Thumbing through a copy of the store's 1946 guidebook (tellingly, a guidebook for both the store and the city -- presumably as a useful ...
Friday, February 12, 2010
In search of your Marshall Field's photographs!
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Ever take your kids to see the Marshall Field's Christmas windows? Or eat in the Walnut Room or get a makeover at the cosmetics counter?...
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Marshall Field's and the Field Museum
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Yes, their names are similar: Marshall Field, Field Museum. But beyond just the assumption that he gave a lot of many, how many modern Chica...
Monday, January 11, 2010
Clockmender
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Norman Rockwell immortalized the store’s clocks in a typically whimsical illustration for the cover of the wildly popular Saturday Evening P...
Thursday, January 7, 2010
The cathedral of all stores
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There has been a lot written about how department stores often emulated church architecture. At least as early as 1922, the store's &quo...
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