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Title: Manual for Saleswomen
Date(s): 1934?, 1934
Creator: W.T. Grant (Firm)
Contributor(s): Grant, W. T. (William Thomas), 1876-1972 (associated name)
Description: Manual intended for new saleswomen employed by the W.T. Grant Company.
Collection ID: Pam 2001.022
Hagley ID: pam2001022_51812
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: People Who Work in Stores
Date(s): 1971
Contributor(s): Coronet Films (production company)
Description: Educational Collaborator Frank J. Estvan, PhD Professor of Education, Wayne State University. Film describes various occupations within a store.
Collection ID: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection (Accession 2018.222)
Hagley ID: FILM_2018222_FC143
Collection: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection

Title: Carrie Edwards to Nora Edwards, 1903-12-08
Date(s): 1903-12-08
Contributor(s): Edwards, Caroline, 1877-1918 (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), C. H. Edwards (Firm) (associated name), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: In a letter to her sister-in-law, Carrie Edwards tells Nora Edwards that no atlas has arrived at the office nor were any orders received from Mrs. Altman, Anna Miller, or the lady from Springfield. She states that she will copy down the list of orders for Nora if she has time before mailing this letter. She also remarks on personal matters, giving an update on her daughter, Mae, and mentioning receiving a letter from 'sister Augusta,' who is being treated for nervous frustration at a hospital...
Show moreIn a letter to her sister-in-law, Carrie Edwards tells Nora Edwards that no atlas has arrived at the office nor were any orders received from Mrs. Altman, Anna Miller, or the lady from Springfield. She states that she will copy down the list of orders for Nora if she has time before mailing this letter. She also remarks on personal matters, giving an update on her daughter, Mae, and mentioning receiving a letter from 'sister Augusta,' who is being treated for nervous frustration at a hospital in Long Beach, California.
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Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_05_13
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Addie Hightower to Nora Edwards, 1905-10-29
Date(s): 1905-10-29
Contributor(s): Hightower, Addie (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Personal letter from a friend of Nora Edwards, in which she writes about the yellow fever outbreak during the summer, the quarantine established to prevent its spread, and how the outbreak affect her and her colleagues' work. She works in a department store in the corset and ladies' underwear department. She thanks Edwards for sending a supporter and asks for news of a mutual friend. In a postscript, she mentions that her sister has nearly finished with a course in bookkeeping and shorthand...
Show morePersonal letter from a friend of Nora Edwards, in which she writes about the yellow fever outbreak during the summer, the quarantine established to prevent its spread, and how the outbreak affect her and her colleagues' work. She works in a department store in the corset and ladies' underwear department. She thanks Edwards for sending a supporter and asks for news of a mutual friend. In a postscript, she mentions that her sister has nearly finished with a course in bookkeeping and shorthand at a college.
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Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_07_11
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Carrie Edwards to Nora Edwards, 1904-05-03
Date(s): 1904-05-03
Contributor(s): Edwards, Caroline, 1877-1918 (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), C. H. Edwards (Firm) (associated name), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: In a letter to her sister-in-law, Carrie Edwards agrees to Nora Edwards' offer of a wage rate of $5.00 per thousand supporters made plus 10% of the mail orders received, and she asks to retain the retail business as it was before. She also relays advice from her husband, Charles, who believes that if Nora Edwards wishes to make her brother, David Edwards, a partner in the company, it would be better to make him a silent partner as it will be easier to achieve a rating for the company with...
Show moreIn a letter to her sister-in-law, Carrie Edwards agrees to Nora Edwards' offer of a wage rate of $5.00 per thousand supporters made plus 10% of the mail orders received, and she asks to retain the retail business as it was before. She also relays advice from her husband, Charles, who believes that if Nora Edwards wishes to make her brother, David Edwards, a partner in the company, it would be better to make him a silent partner as it will be easier to achieve a rating for the company with fewer partners without collateral.
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Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_06_05
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Nellie Miller to Nora Edwards, 1904-05-25
Date(s): 1904-05-25
Contributor(s): Miller, Nellie (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Miller has received the supporters and has been taking orders for two days. She is optimistic that she will be able to earn more money canvassing than by working in her brother-in-law's store, and she plans to canvas in three other townships in addition to Afton, Iowa. She adds that she would like go to the exposition (likely the Louisiana Purchase Exposition) soon.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_06_06
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: [Alice?] C. Bowlee to Nora Edwards, 1912-04-14
Date(s): 1912-04-14
Contributor(s): Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Edwards' friend reports that she does not have many opportunities to speak to potential buyers on account of her being taken back in her old position. She gives examples of the interactions she has been able to have with buyers given her limited schedule.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_12_07
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: The Edwards Skirt Supporter Co. to Nora Edwards, 1903-12-07
Date(s): 1903-12-07
Contributor(s): Edwards, Caroline, 1877-1918 (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (correspondent)
Description: List of orders taken by Carrie Edwards, sister-in-law of Nora Edwards, for the Edwards Skirt Supporter Co. Carrie Edwards mentions that four of orders were given and the money drawn from the till of her husband's, Charles H. Edwards, store in the hope that the women purchasing the supporters might become agents for the company.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_05_12
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Mrs. Edith Harbeson Wahl and Vincent
Date(s): 1920-10
Contributor(s): Joshua Conner & Son (originator)
Collection ID: Joshua Conner & Son leather goods store photographs (Accession 1995.205)
Hagley ID: AVD_1995_205_004
Collection: Joshua Conner & Son leather goods store photographs

Title: Carrie Edwards to Nora Edwards, 1904-01-29
Date(s): 1904-01-29
Contributor(s): Edwards, Caroline, 1877-1918 (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), C. H. Edwards (Firm) (associated name), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: In a letter to her sister-in-law, Carrie Edwards tells Nora Edwards that she is sending the buckles by today's mail. She writes that the same man who had been interested in purchasing Nora's land is still interested and checks with her regularly to see it if is still for sale. She apologizes for having wrapped the supporters she sent and sympathizes with the expense of express charges. A list of goods sold is enclosed with the letter. Carrie Edwards also remarks on personal matters, including...
Show moreIn a letter to her sister-in-law, Carrie Edwards tells Nora Edwards that she is sending the buckles by today's mail. She writes that the same man who had been interested in purchasing Nora's land is still interested and checks with her regularly to see it if is still for sale. She apologizes for having wrapped the supporters she sent and sympathizes with the expense of express charges. A list of goods sold is enclosed with the letter. Carrie Edwards also remarks on personal matters, including the continued illness of Gustie (Augusta).
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Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_06_01
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Addie Hightower to Nora Edwards, 1904-04-24
Date(s): 1904-04-24
Contributor(s): Hightower, Addie (correspondent), Edwards, Nora C. (correspondent), Edwards Skirt Supporter Company (associated name)
Description: Personal letter from a friend of Nora Edwards, in which she writes of wanting to go to the St. Louis World's Fair but wants to make enough money so that she can stay as long as she likes at the fair. She mentions a possible fishing party and that she is still clerking but does not make as much money as when she was with Edwards.
Collection ID: Nora C. Edwards papers (Accession 2036)
Hagley ID: 2036_01_06_02
Collection: Nora C. Edwards papers

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 03, No. 07), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1909-06-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Tomkins, Floyd W. (Floyd Williams), 1850-1932 (contributor), Beale, J. Frank, Jr., 1872-1938 (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_03_07
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 23, No. 03), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1930-03
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_23_03
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 08, No. 11), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1914-11-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Nocton, Edward J. (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_08_11
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 06, No. 10), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1912-09-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Clutch, Robert M. (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_06_10
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 03, No. 08), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1909-07-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Gillam, Manly Marcus 1846- (contributor), Hodges, Leigh Mitchell, 1876-1954 (contributor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_03_08
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 08, No. 04), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1914-03-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Nocton, Edward J. (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_08_04
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 09, No. 07), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1915-07-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Nocton, Edward J. (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_09_07
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 06, No. 04), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1912-03-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Beale, J. Frank, Jr., 1872-1938 (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_06_04
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 01, No. 02), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1906-10
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_01_02
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 10, No. 06), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1916-05-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Nocton, Edward J. (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_10_06
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 04, No. 07), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1910-06-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Beale, J. Frank, Jr., 1872-1938 (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_04_07
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 03, No. 12), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1909-11-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Weston, Rosa D. (contributor), Beale, J. Frank, Jr., 1872-1938 (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_03_12
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 08, No. 10), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1914-10-15
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Nocton, Edward J. (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_08_10
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

Title: Store Chat (Vol. 26, No. 10), Strawbridge & Clothier Store Chat
Date(s): 1944-11
Contributor(s): Strawbridge & Clothier (originator), Aspinwall, Marguerite (editor)
Collection ID: HD9959.S78 A115
Hagley ID: HD9959_S78_A115_26_10
Collection: Strawbridge & Clothier's Store Chat

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