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Spiegel Spring/Summer 1958 Catalog. Spiegel was an American direct marketing retailer founded in 1865 by Joseph Spiegel.Spiegel published a catalog, like its competitors Sears, Aldens, and Montgomery Ward, which advertised various brands of apparel, accessories, and footwear, as well as housewares, toys, tools, firearms, and electronics.
Spiegel was born to a Jewish family, the son of Regina (née Greenebaum) and Moses Spiegel, a rabbi. [1] In September of 1848, his family (himself, three sisters, and his parents) emigrated from their small village in Abenheim, near the city of Worms in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, to the United States via France, fleeing growing anti-Jewish sentiment, revolutionary turmoil, and the fear that the ...
Luria's – originally L. Luria & Son, was a chain of catalog showroom stores in Florida, from 1961 to 1997. Service Merchandise – closed all its retail stores by early 2002; the name was resurrected in 2004 for an online retail operation [41] [42] Witmark – operated in southwestern Michigan; founded 1969, liquidated 1997 [43] [44]
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
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Schlereth, Thomas J. "Mail-Order Catalogs as Resources in American Culture Studies", Prospects (1982) Vol. 7, pp 141–161. Smalley, Orange A. "Market Entry and Economic Adaptation: Spiegel's First Decade in Mail Order," Business History Review (1961) 35#3 pp. 372–401. Covers 1905 to 1915. in JSTOR
In March 2003, Spiegel filed for bankruptcy. [29] It sold its flagship catalog business and its Newport News women's apparel unit and announced that Eddie Bauer Inc. was up for auction. More than 200 Eddie Bauer stores were closed. The company's corporate headquarters, in Redmond, Washington, was sold to Microsoft for $38 million. [30] [31]
The Spiegel Office Building is a historic office building at 1038 W. 35th Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1936-37 as an office building for Spiegel Inc. , a mail order company established in Chicago in 1865.