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B. Altman: Lost New York

Listen to the Gotham Center and Sharon Zukin's podcast on the history on the B. Altman Department Store, once a premier department store of New York, while examining these related archival images!

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The Gotham Center for New York City History

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B. Altman & Company Department Store

B. Altman & Company Department Store

34th Street and Fifth Avenue. B. Altman Store. Viewed from the Empire State Building

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B. Altman Store

B. Altman Store

Sharon Zukin, author of Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture, on ‘B. Altman’s,’ the famous Midtown department store, and the new world of consumption it helped make

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B. Altman & Company Department Store

B. Altman & Company Department Store

34th Street and Fifth Avenue. Altman's Department Store. Entire block from elevated vantage

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B. Altman & Company Department Store

B. Altman & Company Department Store

B. Altman & Co. Primary subject: B Altmans Eighth Floor Restaurant

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B. Altman & Company Department Store

B. Altman & Company Department Store

5th Ave. & 34th St. N.E.

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B. Altman & Company Department Store

B. Altman & Company Department Store

B. Altman & Co. Primary subject: B Altmans

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B. Altman & Company Department Store

B. Altman & Company Department Store

34th Street and Fifth Avenue. B. Altman and Company Store Photograph taken for Erickson Co.

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