Department Stores Through the Years

Department Stores Through the Years

A 1909 photo shows the original Selfridge’s location.

Department Stores Through the Years

Marshall Field & Company’s retail store, located at Washington Randolph and Wabash in Chicago and built in 1910, was at the time the largest retail store in the world.

Department Stores Through the Years

The Great Clock outside of the Marshall Field’s on Washington and State Streets in Chicago.

Department Stores Through the Years

The Macy’s Herald Square store in New York in 1905. 

Department Stores Through the Years

Le Bon Marche’s Parisian storefront features intricate ironwork designed in the 1800s.

Department Stores Through the Years

Bloomingdale’s Department Store at Lexington Avenue and 59th Street in New York in 1985.

Department Stores Through the Years

A sketch of Harrods in London from 1905.

Department Stores Through the Years

A sketch of Au Bon Marche, dated 1910.

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Department Stores Through the Years

A look at New York’s Macy’s, then the world’s largest store, in 1961.

Department Stores Through the Years

The Fifth Avenue Au Bon Marche facade in New York in the 1950s.

Department Stores Through the Years

The exterior of the department store Bendel’s in New York in the 1970s.