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(WINDOW DISPLAYS)
Thick album with more than 220 photographs of window display tableaux at Kleinhans Department
Store in Buffalo, NewYork, a high-end department store and the largest men’s clothier in the United
States. Each depicting menswear in a variety of jaunty and modern designs meant to appeal to
everyone, from the career to college man—including suits, neckwear, knits, sporting wear, hats,
luggage, coats, and shoes—for a variety of seasons and all weather; nearly all photographed at night.
Silver prints, each approximately 7
1
/
2
x9
1
/
2
inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), mounted to linen, some with a
Kleinhans Display Director credit in the negative, and each with a Kleinhans hand stamp on mount
verso, some with a date and notation, in ink. Oblong 4to, green boards with an embossed Master
Made Clothes Cincinnati cover and a split pin binding, worn. 1930s
[6,000/9,000]