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Depicts activities, people, and sites related to the Gimbel Brothers Department Store in Philadelphia. contains exterior views of both buildings at 9th & Market Streets. Particular attention is devoted to the annual Thanksgiving and Christmas parades, showing mumming, floats, and Santa Claus....
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1912-1946
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Depicts activities, people, and sites related to the Gimbel Brothers Department Store in Philadelphia. contains exterior views of both buildings at 9th & Market Streets. Particular attention is devoted to the annual Thanksgiving and Christmas parades, showing mumming, floats, and Santa Claus. Highlights store window displays with emphasis on defense subjects. Shows exhibitions of art, antiques, defense equipment, fashion, and anthropology. Depicts quality control testing at the Bureau of Standards, television shopping, employee service ceremonies, and various club activities. Includes views of Uncle Wip with children. Also portrays the Gimbel family. These subject entries for the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photo morgue are primarily for Places (buildings, parks, streets, etc.), Things (Bicycles, Bison, Blind Persons [just sampling the B's]), Events (Democratic National Convention 1936, Flourtown Fair, Harvest Week) and Social Constructs (Home Economics, City Planning, Eating & Drinking, etc.). Each of these subjects became a MARC record which included a call number. In the case of these records, the call numbers are the actual folder numbers for the materials referenced. Therefore, these subject headings are really also an index for this section of the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photograph morgue. [The name section of the Philadelphia Record photo morgue represents individuals, A-Z, and |
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Part of the Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection; for general information, see collection record. |
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123 photoprints : silver gelatin; 9 photoprints 11"x 17" or smaller |