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(WINDOW DISPLAYS)
A small group of 15 photographs showing window displays designed by Worsinger at
the elegant Elizabeth Arden store in NewYork 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
[800/1,200]
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.
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(WINDOW DISPLAYS—BOOTS CHEMISTS)
Contemporary binder with 62 photographs of busy window displays for the British company
Boots Chemists.
Advertising a range of products from Aspirin, Sanatogen, and hand cream, to candy, greetings cards,
and cattle medicine. Each display features a number of stacked, hanging, or balanced products,
alongside quirky cutouts and props. Chromogenic (one) and silver (61) prints, ranging in size from
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inches (8.9x8.9 to 16.5x21 cm.), nearly all with photographers’ hand stamps,
and some with notations, in red pencil, on verso. Circa 1960
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(NEWYORK—GROCERY SHOPPING)
A suite of 31 photographs depicting grocery shelves and aisles fully stocked with an array of
packaged and fresh food and other household products such as cameras, bicycles, and cosmetics.
With images showing stacks of packaged cookies, hundreds of condiment bottles, piles of potatoes, and
an overflowing refrigerated section of green grapes.The photographs apparently depict 2 separate stores,
both very period in their design.Chromogenic prints, the images each measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4
cm.), and the reverse, a few with the photographer’s hand stamp on verso. 1960s-70s
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The stores depicted in the photographs areWaldbaum’s grocery store, which mainly operated within
NewYork City’s five boroughs during the 1960s, and Masters, a department store located on Main
Street in Flushing, Queens, during the 1970s.
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