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Attribution
Gabrielle Esperdy
Publication Details
Book, University of Chicago Press, 2008
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Description
An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across 1930s America, but it has since been almost completely forgotten. As the decade?s two major cultural forces, Esperdy concludes, consumerism and the Depression transformed the storefront from a seemingly insignificant element of the built environment into a potent site for the physical and rhetorical staging of recovery and progress. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Storefronts · United States · History · 20th century · Commercial buildings · New Deal, 1933-1939 · Consumption (Economics) · 20th century · Esperdy, Gabrielle M
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA6225 .E87 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA6225 .E87 2008	AVAILABLE

Attribution
Bernice L. Thomas
Publication Details
Book, John Wiley & Sons, 1997
Description
A celebration of a distinctly American form of commercial architecture The only comprehensive history of America’s 5-&-10-cent stores It was where you went to browse the latest issues of Life and Photoplay, where the folks bought reading glasses, and where your mom took you for a hot dog and a malted. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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S. H. Kress & Co · Variety stores · United States · Storefronts · Store decoration · Thomas, Bernice L · National Building Museum (U.S.) · Preservation Press
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA6227.V37 T56 1997 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA6227.V37 T56 1997	AVAILABLE