Kaufmann's : the family that built Pittsburgh's famed department store /
"In 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community of German Jews selling sewing items to the coal miners and mill workers of western Pennsylvani...
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2022]
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Mục lục:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1: From Peddlers to Prosperity
- 2: A Gilded Age Lifestyle
- 3: The Rise of a Merchant Prince
- 4: Cracks in a Marriage
- 5: Profits and Golden Roses
- 6: The Prime of Edgar and Liliane
- 7: The Fellowship and Fallingwater
- 8: Mr. Kaufmann Goes to Washington
- 9: Kaufmann's Wages War
- 10: Sweet Home California
- 11: Edgar Raises the Curtain
- 12: The Collapse of a Marriage
- 13: Kaufmann's, the May Company, and Malls
- 14: Time-Honored Traditions
- 15: The Death of Downtown Department Stores
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.