The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy. Summary Records documenting John Wanamaker's import of French painting from Parisian salons and ...

Philadelphia’s recently shuttered “palace of shopping,” Daniel Burnham’s 12-story department store commissioned by industrialist John Wanamaker, was largely influenced by Palazzo Medici in Florence, ...

As the monumental Merchandise Mart was being erected next to the Chicago River in the 1920s, the owner of the structure-in-progress ordered that, along one exterior wall of the edifice, there should ...

After Macy’s announced in November 2023 its plans to close approximately 150 locations across the United States, some Philadelphians fretted – not so much about the fate of the Center City department ...