THE DEPARTMENT STORE BAG
The paper bags used by department stores usually carried the store's logo and were designed using the signature color associated with a particular store. Large, handled shopping bags, which could be bought for, say, 15 cents from a dispenser near escalators, might be bigger versions of the standard bag, or, as in the case of Bloomingdale's, specially designed bags which were works of art in their own right.
The paper bags used by department stores usually carried the store's logo and were designed using the signature color associated with a particular store. Large, handled shopping bags, which could be bought for, say, 15 cents from a dispenser near escalators, might be bigger versions of the standard bag, or, as in the case of Bloomingdale's, specially designed bags which were works of art in their own right.
Store shopping bags definitely held their own cachet. To walk about town carrying a bag from a certain store was at one time a real status symbol. One commentator on the internet stated that, before going home, they always went to the bargain basement, and purchased a small piece of jewelry for $.50, just to have a prestigious store's bag to carry home on the bus!
YOU ARE INVITED
The bags illustrated below are graphic reproductions made from various sources. If you can supply scans or photos of the bags of the stores included in the museum, from the period of 1960s through the mid-1970s, they will be considered for inclusion in the colorful bag exhibit.
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| The Broadway Los Angeles, California |
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| Buffums Long Beach, California |
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| Capwell's Oakland, California |
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| The Emporium San Francisco, California |
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| Marshall Field & Company Chicago, Illinois |
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| Jordan Marsh Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Denholms Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Crowley's Detroit, Michigan |
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| Hudson's Detroit, Michigan |
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| Jacobson's Jackson, Michigan |
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| Knapp's Lansing, Michigan Courtesy of Zyg from Lansing |
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| B. Altman & Co. New York City, New York |
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| Joseph Horne Co. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Eaton's Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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