Visions of Bonwit Teller from an early 1950 photo shoot. Corset shop, bridal salon and lots more. Why Bonwit Teller? First I couldn’t find anything from I Magnin. Second my mother worked the Christmas rush at Bonwit’s in New York as a college girl selling baby clothes. She went broke shopping with her employee discount spending far more than she got paid.

Photographs 1 Minute
Bridal room, Bonwit Teller, Cleveland, Ohio. August 6-8 1951 image. American. Photographed by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc for their client William C. Pahlman (1900-1987). He was an interior designer so presumably had redecorated spaces in the store. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Copyright not known. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018724466/
Fur salon, Bonwit Teller, Cleveland, Ohio. August 6-8 1951 image. American. Photographed by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc for their client William C. Pahlman (1900-1987). He was an interior designer so presumably had redecorated spaces in the store. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Copyright not known. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018724471/
Subteen department, Bonwit Teller, Cleveland, Ohio. August 6-8 1951 image. American. Photographed by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc for their client William C. Pahlman (1900-1987). He was an interior designer so presumably had redecorated spaces in the store. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Copyright not known. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018724458/
Junior department, Bonwit Teller, Cleveland, Ohio. August 6-8 1951 image. American. Photographed by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc for their client William C. Pahlman (1900-1987). He was an interior designer so presumably had redecorated spaces in the store. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Copyright not known. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018724459/
Corset department, Bonwit Teller, Cleveland, Ohio. August 6-8 1951 image. American. Photographed by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc for their client William C. Pahlman (1900-1987). He was an interior designer so presumably had redecorated spaces in the store. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Copyright not known. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018724472/
Shoe Department towards Main Display, Bonwit Teller, Cleveland, Ohio. August 6-8 1951 image. American. Photographed by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc for their client William C. Pahlman (1900-1987). He was an interior designer so presumably had redecorated spaces in the store. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Copyright not known. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gsc.5a20638/

I’m sorry the resolution isn’t higher but the photographer’s negatives that these are taken from that got donated to the Library of Congress aren’t that big.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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