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Manchesters Display Poster
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George Stein, photographer, on the right, and Frank Marx, window decorator, on the left in Manchesters Department Store. They are looking at a 10' tall poster of a female model stepping off a train.
August 23, 1940
Waste, Elwin G., 1902-1957
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Manchesters Formal Dress Department
September 24, 1940
Manchesters Department Store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street formal dress department with mannequins in two full-length gowns. Second floor remodeled.
Manchesters Dress Department
September 24, 1940
Manchesters Department Store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street. Two mannequins are wearing short dresses, and two mannequins are wearing floor length dresses in the dress department, remodeled second floor.
Manchesters Millinery Department
September 24, 1940
Vertical view of Manchesters Department Store, 2-6 East Mifflin St., millinery department, remodeled second floor.
Manchesters Coats & Furs Department
September 24, 1940
Three mannequins wearing coats in Manchesters Department Store, 2-6 East Mifflin St., coats and furs department, remodeled second floor.
Women's Fashion Show
February 28, 1941
Women's style show (for McCall's) at Manchesters Department Store with six female models wearing long dresses on stage, and a female announcer at the microphone.
Model at Train Station
August 13, 1940
Manchesters Department Store model, wearing fur jacket hat and purse, posing with the conductor who is holding her luggage on the steps of a passenger train car.
