WORSINGER and VERNE WILLIAMS

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WORSINGER and VERNE WILLIAMS

'Shop Windows and Interiors New York' and '...New York & Miami', 1930s
Five albums with a total of 248 gelatin silver prints, each approx. 7¼ x 9½ in., over 200 signed in the negatives Worsinger, two with extensive captions in the negatives credited Worsinger Window Service, these and most others with four-figure reference numbers in the negatives, four similarly signed Verne Williams, mounted one-per-page, red half morocco, gilt, five titled Shop Windows and Interiors New York and one titled Shop Windows and Interiors New York and Miami and each with This book is the Property of Edward Christie-Miller in gilt on upper cover, oblong 4to. (5)

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Fifteen views only in Miami of which four are signed Verne Williams, the remainder in New York. Eighty-seven are studies of window and interior displays at Saks & Co., sixteen of Macy & Co., ten of Lord & Taylor, seven of Bonwit-Teller and seven of Bamberger's, Newark. Other stores featured include Mark Cross, Abercrombie & Fitch, Bergdorf Goodman, F. W. Woolworth & Co., McCreery, Bloomingdale's, Best & Co. and Stern Bros. During this period Sidney Ring was the display director for Saks and was known for heading a team of perfectionists who usually changed the display of all thirty-one windows every week.

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