History of the United States II / Unit 3 USH2 0343 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Department Stores
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The idea
Department stores such as New York's Macy's, Philadelphia's Gimbel's and Chicago's Marshall Field's made shopping a new urban experience.
In practice
Chain stores like A and P and Woolworth's serving customers who were not wealthy, from the eighteen seventies.
Where people slip
The Yawp says large dry-goods houses grew into modern department stores by the eighteen eighties.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
- Nothing. This is a starting point.
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