12-story granite "Marshall Field's" department store designed by Charles B. Atwood (1849-1895) of D. H. Burnham & Company, Chicago • building actually 5 separate structures covering a city block • 73 acres of floorspace, once largest department store in world • 7.75 ton cast bronze clock on each State St. corner designed by Graham, Anderson Probst & White • store slogan "give the lady what she wants" • innovations included escalators, tea room, revolving credit, personal shoppers, book signings • 2006 conversion of iconic store to Macy's brand remains controversial • designated Chicago Landmark, 2005, National Historic Landmark, 1978, National Register #78001123, 1978 • Loop Retail Historic District National Re Register #98001351, 1998 • Wikipedia
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Halina Nashan, born in Ostroleka, Poland, immigrated to Chicago in 1934 and was president of Halina’s Doll Fashions. She died in 1999 age 79. Her company created fashion doll clothing for high-end department stores such as Marshall Fields in Chicago in the sixties. Since these outfits weren’t mass produced, they are extremely hard to find today. The fashions are mostly undocumented.
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The imposing building of Marshall Field & Company was not only the second-largest department store in the world, it was a Chicago...
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Striking Art Deco-inspired black and white patterns adorn the labels of London Field Soap Company! Recently launched as an artisan brand in East of London, this new company wanted an identity system that complimented their handmade, organic, and beautiful bars of soap. One Darnley Road was tasked with the challenge to “bring back the bar” […]
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"Marshall Field's is Chicago" in script; photo of Chicago skyline. Recto: " Marshall Field's." Verso: "Chicago." Side panels: "Is." "Is."
On November 3, 1945, Norman Rockwell drew a picture of one of the Marshall Field Building clocks on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.The Rockwell painting shows a man perched atop a ladder and adjusting one of the Marshall Field's clock to correspond with his own pocket watch. The Oriental Theatre in the background proves this depicts the matching Great Clock at the northwest corner of the building at State & Randolph. In 1948, Rockwell donated the original painting. The painting has been donated to the Chicago Historical Society en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:0609Departments_411_06_0.jpg
The best cream of mushroom soup. The recipe came from Marshall Fields Walnut room cookbook from 1940s.
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