Beir Bros. department store photographs, approximately 1941

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Summary

Creator:
Beir Bros. (Firm)
Abstract:
Beir Bros. was a department store located in Niagara Falls, N.Y., opened by Edwin Beir around 1891 and continued in operation until it closed in 1986. Collection includes black-and-white photographs of the Beir Bros. department store exterior and interior. Depicted are street views of the storefront, show windows, display cases with merchandise, and sales promotional messages. Merchandise includes Carole King dresses, Beacon blankets, Fruit of the Loom, Flexees foundation garments (Maidenform), and Treadeasy shoes. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
0.1 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.12089

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes black-and-white photographs of the Beir Bros. department store exterior and interior. Depicted are street views of the storefront, show windows, display cases with merchandise, and sales promotional messages. Merchandise includes Carole King dresses, Beacon blankets, Fruit of the Loom, Flexees foundation garments (Maidenform), and Treadeasy shoes.

Biographical / historical:

Beir Bros. was a department store located in Niagara Falls, N.Y., opened by Edwin Beir around 1891 and continued in operation until it closed in 1986.

Beir Bros. was founded by Edwin Beir upon his arrival in Niagara Falls in 1891. After Edwin's death the store passed to Isaac Beir; it was incorporated in 1939 as Beir Bros., Inc. in 1939, and in 1948 the store was sold to Douglas Grant, a businessman from Utica, N.Y. During urban renewal in Niagara Falls, Beir Bros. moved to anchor the Rainbow Centre Mall in 1982 under the name of Beir's, but went out of business a few years later in 1986.

Acquisition information:
The Beir Bros. department store photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase from Walkabout Books in 2023.
Processing information:

Processed by Richard Collier, Apr. 2023;

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2023-0037.

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Subjects:
Display of merchandise
Show windows
Department stores -- United States -- History
Format:
Merchandise inventories.
Names:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History

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