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‘Dry goods’ is the collective name of textile fabrics and manufactured articles. [1] In the late 1800s there were hundreds and thousands of dry goods wholesaling stores and retail stores in America throughout towns and villages, engaging over one million people into the industry of dry goods trades. [1]
Alexander Turney Stewart (October 12, 1803 – April 10, 1876) was an Irish- American entrepreneur who moved to New York and made his multimillion-dollar fortune in the most extensive and lucrative dry goods store in the world.
The free-produce movement was an international boycott of goods produced by slave labor. It was used by the abolitionist movement as a non-violent way for individuals, including the disenfranchised , to fight slavery .
280 Broadway was originally a dry-goods store operated by Alexander Turney Stewart and was designed in five stages by four architects. [1] [2] The original store, as well as its first two additions in 1850–1851 and 1852–1853, were both designed by John B. Snook and Joseph Trench [b] of the firm Trench & Snook. [2]
It was founded in 1825 as a small dry goods store on Pine Street in New York City. In 1857 the store moved into a five-story white marble dry goods palace known as the Marble House. During the Civil War, Arnold Constable was one of the first stores to issue charge bills of credit to its customers each month instead of on a bi-annual basis.
Sold for: $1,800 Well-preserved (especially unopened) Prohibition-era bottles of liquor are some of the highest-selling items of the time. This particular bottle, which was marketed for medicinal ...
Ice became increasingly used in the northeast of the U.S. to preserve dairy products and fresh fruit for market, the chilled goods being transported over the growing railroad lines. [54] By the 1840s, ice was being used to transfer small quantities of goods further west across the continent. [54]
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