Shopkeepers and shoppers : a social history of retailing in New South Wales from 1788
Pollon, Frances, 1923-1989
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Sydney : Retail Traders' Association of New South Wales, 1989.
Collation:
x, 382 pages : illustrations, facsimile, portraits. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Available from Retail Traders' Association of New South Wales, 20 York Street, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000.Bibliography: p. 367-372.Includes index.
Contents:
1. Early days and early ways in the retail trade -- 2. The oldest stores and markets in early Sydney -- 3. Commercial Sydney: Small shops, early shopkeepers and general stores 1844-48 -- 4. Warehouses: Once a way of retail life -- 5. Street sellers: A unique aspect of retailing evident from 1860 and into the early 1900s -- 6. Kings of firtune: The establishing of the family empires in retailing -- 7. George Street stores, including the Haymarket and Railway Square, Park and Clarence Streets -- 8. Pitt Street stores, including Market Street and King Street -- 9. Oxford Street stores -- 10. Liverpool Street stores -- 11. Castlereagh and Elizabeth Street stores -- 12. Jewellers in the retail trade -- 13. Names remembered with nostalgia -- 14. Retailing in the suburbs of Sydney -- Retailing comes to the country: Histories of country stores -- 16. The rule makers of commerce: Chamber of Commerce. Chamber of Manufacturers. Union. The Retail Traders' Association -- 17. Training for the trade , a time of staff survival -- 18. The birth of the chain stores -- 19. Adventures in Arcadia, The arcades of Sydney -- 20. Advertising and Window Dressing, an eye catching art -- 21. Famous fires and floods in retail history -- 22. Selling, and the buyers little helpers: A summary of selling aids from days past -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN:
9780959653939 (hardback)0959653937 (hardback)
Dewey class:
381.109944
Local class:
381.1
Language:
English
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BRN:
8256
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