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Title: Souvenir guide book of the Wanamaker Store in New York City : with certain annals of the store's origin and history in Philadelphia.
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: John Wanamaker (Firm)
Subjects: John Wanamaker (Firm) John Wanamaker (Department store : New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: (S.l. : John Wanamaker)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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n minds and pairs of human hands, with the instincts of human frailty, composean organization, human weakness will at times fail. But the idealis ever present. The intent is in every pulse-beat; and every erroris promptly, pleasantly, .and if possible, effectually righted; theflaw in the machinery corrected; and endeavor continued. We are trying to deserve the success that has come to Wana-maker methods in New York. If we knew how to serve the whole public better, we would doit. The best that seems possible to-day, we are doing. We hopeto do better to-morrow. 22 JOAMICS
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ON October 16, IS96, the oW A, I. Stewart retail business inNew York City became a part of the Wanamaker organiza-tion. In the minds of many business men it was a veryquestionable undertaking; but it was not merely the effort to addanother to the many splendid stores of New York City, but theinducement that actuated the enterprise was to develop the Wana-maker idea in store keeping and give to New York City somethingdifferent in a store from what it had ever had. The splendid store structure, erected by A. T. Stewart, gavea magnificent foundation and full opportunity for developmentof the plan. This line old building is to-day, forty-five years afterits erection, one of the finest models in store buildings thatexists. Only a few years had passed by when the success of the under-taking was abundantly proven. The business grew with greatstrides until it more than filled the old Stewart structure. Monthby month, and year by year, improvements were made in stocksand fixtures, but it soonsouvenirguideboo00john

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