Shreve, Crump & Low photographic materials, 1926-1957

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1926-1957

GUSN

GUSN-366388

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Description

Series contains a bound album and four folders of loose photographs related to Kenneth Gray Sears’ employment as a display manager at Shreve, Crump & Low. The album contains black-and-white photographs; correspondence; clippings; display sketches; and printed ephemera. The four folders contain 146 loose black-and-white photographs. The loose photographs were taken by various photographers from Massachusetts and New York. The photographer for the album is unknown.

Details

Descriptive Terms

stores
display rooms and spaces
showrooms
display designers
preliminary sketches (sketches)
photographs
photograph albums
ephemera
clippings (information artifacts)
letters (correspondence)
preliminary sketches (sketches)
black-and-white photographs

Physical Descrption

1 album and 4 folders

Collection Code

PC009

Collection Name

Photograph albums collection

Reference Code

PC009.303.002

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Sears, Kenneth Gray, 1903-1966 (Compiler)
Shreve, Crump & Low Company (Agency)

Material Type

photograph albums
ephemera
clippings (information artifacts)
letters (correspondence)
preliminary sketches (sketches)
black-and-white photographs

Other People

Sears, Kenneth Gray, 1903-1966

Other Organizations

Shreve, Crump & Low Company

Subjects

Photograph
Display of merchandise

Description Level

Series

Arrangement

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically, and alphabetically thereunder.

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