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[10] He began to court diplomatic and government support of a fur trading venture to be established on the Pacific shore in the same year. In correspondence with the Mayor of New York City, DeWitt Clinton, Astor explained that a state charter would offer a particular level of formal sanction needed in the venture. [5]
Other employees of the factory system, many on a part-time-basis, handled purchasing and transportation in Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, Savannah, Albany and St. Louis. [11] The furs received in trade at the factories were from 1806 to 1809 sold at public auction. This ended because the market became oversupplied and the prices low. [12]
Gunther Jaeckel is a famous New York City furrier. In 1949, the two old-line furriers Gunther & Sons Inc. and Jaeckel Inc. merged into Gunther Jaeckel to widen their product line beyond furs to ladies’ dresses and suits. [1] Gunther Jaeckel purchased Adrian’s entire spring 1948 [2] [3] collection, which was sold in its store at 10 East 57th ...
The relations between the Fur Workers Industrial Union and the International Fur Workers Union of the United States and Canada were very bad. Violent clashes often broke out between the two unions at picket lines, at workplaces or in the streets of the city. [4] Apart from its presence in New York, the union also established a stronghold in ...
The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1965, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Its facade was restored, and the columns re-painted to their original "Turkish drab" color, in 1995, under the supervision of Joseph Pell Lombardi .
Russeks started as a furrier in New York City during the early 1900s, and expanded into luxury clothing and accessories. [2] In 1924, they opened a department store on 390 Fifth Avenue and West 36th Street. [3] [4] This was 390 Fifth Avenue, designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, and completed in 1904-1905 for the Gorham ...
Dan Rossi is an American hot dog vendor in New York City. From 1985 to 1995, he leased food carts to vendors, at one point owning 16% of all pushcart permits in the city. However, in 1995, a new law passed by the city ended this business. Since 2007, he has sold hot dogs outside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's main building.
Ben Gold was born September 8, 1898, to Israel and Sarah (Droll) Gold, Jews living in Bessarabia, a province of the Russian Empire. [1] His father was a jeweler, active in the revolutionary movement and a member of the local Jewish self-defense corps, institutions which existed in many towns as a precaution against pogroms launched by anti-semitic Black Hundreds groups.