Sale 2436 Lot 280

(WINDOW DISPLAYS) A small group of 15 photographs showing window displays designed by Worsinger at the elegant Elizabeth Arden store in New York City.
Including special displays for Easter, Palm Sunday, Christmas, and one with multiple Ivy League school flags apparently for the "back to school" period. Silver prints, the images each measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, all with "Elizabeth Arden" and an inventory number in the negative, and some with handwritten notations identifying the display theme and date, on verso; one duplicate. 1953-54

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WITH--J.C. Penney Co. "Display School" work book. Featuring over 80 surreal reproductions after photographs of "ideal" window displays and images of staged mannequins, hats, clothing, and products. Many of the large reproductions in the book have been removed from their surroundings and isolated on the page giving this interesting book a highly graphic and photomontaged quality. 4to, brown wrappers with a hand drawn title; handwritten notations, in pencil, throughout. Circa 1920s.