Department Store T-Shirts

have come to hold iconic status in the country.

Remembering the great Abraham & Straus Department Store. Officially Abraham & Straus but everybody just called it A & S. They had a number of different logos over the years but this is my favorite. The company's 841,000-square-foot Brooklyn flagship store was located at 422 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. In 2003, the Brooklyn Heights Association and the Municipal Art Society put the building on a list of 28 historic buildings in downtown Brooklyn that needed to be protected.

Pic 'N' Save Corporation (later MacFrugals) was at one time the second-largest closeout retail chain in the United States. William Zimmerman founded Pic 'N' Save Corporation in 1950 in Culver City, California. By 1985, it operated 90 stores in California and six other U.S. states. In 1991, the company changed its name to MacFrugals. It later expanded to the Southwest and into the South, but left both markets in the late '90s. In 1997, Consolidated Stores Corporation bought out the remaining MacFrugals stores for $995 million in stock and slowly began converting them to their closeout retail store brand.

Remembering Hecht’s Department Store. Washington DC and Baltimore Maryland. Hecht's was a large chain of department stores that operated mainly in the mid-Atlantic area. The firm originated in Baltimore in 1860. And then in 1896 Hecht’s opened a store in Washington DC, which eventually moved to a grand glass and marble store at the corner of 7th and F Streets Northwest in 1925. By 2005, Hecht's had some 81 stores in Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The family-owned business made customers a top priority and believed in a personalized shopping experience.

It's where the toys are.

pre-Kmart SS Kresge logo

Maximum Comedy at Minimum Wage!

Frederick & Nelson was for many years known as Seattle's premier department store. Founded by Donald E. Frederick and Nels B. Nelson in 1891, they began selling used furniture during the rebuilding of Seattle after the Great Fire of 1889. The business expanded to include home delivery of goods, a tea room, and ready-to-wear men's and women's fashions, a great deal of which was very much on-trend and from upscale designers from around the world. The owners built a reputation for elegance and customer service that was beyond compare in the Seattle area at the time.

Garfinckel's Department Store - Washington DC

High resolution reproduction, photoshop corrected for sharp prints and vibrant crisp colors, digitally healed for blemishes, tears, and missing elements. MUNCHNER KINDL-KELLER Fashion Department Store Munich 1913 by Hans Rudi Erdt Artworks.

High resolution reproduction, photoshop corrected for sharp prints and vibrant crisp colors, digitally healed for blemishes, tears, and missing elements. AU PRINTEMPS BRUMMELL French Department Store Art Deco by Leonetto Cappiello 1931 Poster.

Retro styled 1960s Montgomery Ward Logo

Another fun place that just couldn't make it.

Lewis's Department Store (1877-1991), Market Street Manchester. Now the largest Primark in the world

High resolution reproduction, photoshop corrected for sharp prints and vibrant crisp colors, digitally healed for blemishes, tears, and missing elements. LA RINASCENTE PADOVA by JC Leyendecker Department Store Clothing For Men and Children Old Italian Advert Poster.

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Winkelman's Department Store

Remembering Mongomery Ward. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a world-pioneering mail-order business and later also a leading department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. Many humoruosly refrerred to it as Monkey Ward.

Montgomery Ward Department Store Electronics Department

High resolution reproduction, photoshop corrected for sharp prints and vibrant crisp colors, digitally healed for blemishes, tears, and missing elements. Achille Mauzan HOLIDAYS TOYS at Pedro Bignoli Vintage Italian Department Store Poster.

Arlans Discount Department Stores

Opened in 1890 by William Filene, the store got its start as Filene's Sons and Company in 1881, selling fancy goods and women's ready-to-wear apparel. Sons Edward and Lincoln made the retail giant into a household name after inheriting the store in 1901. This scan is from a 50 year old Filenes bag and has some of the inconsistencies of the original design. These are the original colors

Opened in 1890 by William Filene, the store got its start as Filene's Sons and Company in 1881, selling fancy goods and women's ready-to-wear apparel. Sons Edward and Lincoln made the retail giant into a household name after inheriting the store in 1901. This scan is from a 50 year old Filenes bag and has some of the inconsistencies of the original design. Colors have been changed for the purposes of this design.

Dayton's Department Store. 1960s logo.

Opened in 1890 by William Filene, the store got its start as Filene's Sons and Company in 1881, selling fancy goods and women's ready-to-wear apparel. Sons Edward and Lincoln made the retail giant into a household name after inheriting the store in 1901. This scan is from a 50 year old Filenes bag and has some of the inconsistencies of the original design. These are not the original colors

Gastonia North Carolina

Retro styled Zayre Shoppers' City Department Store logo

An ode to your favorite bygone department store. Brendles, we'll miss you. Or maybe we won't.

High resolution reproduction, color corrected for vibrant and crisp colors, sharp prints,and digitally touched up for tears, blemishes, missing elements. Japanese Art Woman in KIMONO Department Store Vintage Advertising Poster.

High resolution reproduction, color corrected for vibrant and crisp colors, sharp prints,and digitally touched up for tears, blemishes, missing elements. Shanghai Chinese Year End Christmas Yuan Cheng Sun Department Store Vintage Advertisement Poster.

High resolution reproduction, color corrected for vibrant and crisp colors, sharp prints,and digitally touched up for tears, blemishes, missing elements. La Rinascente Italian Department Store Advertisement Vintage Art Deco Poster by Marcello Dudovich.

Caldor was a discount department store chain founded in 1951 by husband and wife Carl and Dorothy Bennett, hence the name, Cal-Dor. Referred to by many as an upscale discounter, Caldor grew from a second story “Walk-Up-&-Save” operation in Port Chester, New York, into a regional retailing giant. Its stores were earning over $1 billion in sales by the time Mr. Bennett retired in 1985, by which time Caldor was a subsidiary of Associated Dry Goods. Despite its successes, Caldor suffered from financial issues by the ’90s, and the company was liquidated, with all 145 stores closing by May 1999.

Retro 80s inspired TG&Y Family Centers Defunct discount department store logo

High resolution reproduction, color corrected for vibrant and crisp colors, sharp prints,and digitally touched up for tears, blemishes, missing elements. Japanese Department Store Advertisment by Goyo Hashiguchi Vintage Poster.

Caldor

RETRO STYLE Nassau County Long Island New York Vintage Department Store Design on CREME colored Shirt