© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
- John Marshall Law School – Wikipedia
Chicago IL
Wear Gossard Corsets – They Lace in Front – Chicago, IL
© Frank H. Jump
1913 Ad H W Gossard Maternity Corset Abdominal Support
Courtesy of Bobbins & Bombshells
The movement of factories to find lower labor costs is not something that started when shoes began to be made in China. In 1920 Gossard opened a factory in Ishpeming, Michigan that eventually employed 600 women, Once it was the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (and, to a much greater extent, the American south) that offered a ready supply of inexpensive non-unionized labor. I knew a woman who came to the U.P. in the late 1940s to organize the workers for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. After a long strike, she succeeded and the plant continued for another 20 years after that, finally closing in 1966. There’s a nice exhibit about “The Gossard” in the Cliffs Mine Museum in Ishpeming and a brief article about it here. Best quote:”You were a forward thinking woman if you wore a front-lacing corset.” – Comment from Yooperann on Chicago Man’s Flickr Photostream
- Fashionable History – March 11, 2010 – Bobbins & Bombshells
- Gossard Heritage
- John Iwanski Photography – Chitown Photos
Marigold Margarine – Chicago, IL – Featured Fade – Marian Saska
© Marian Saska
The Milwaukee Journal - Dec. 9, 1915 - Google Books
This is Marigold Margarine at 5079 N. Lincoln Av., Chicago, in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. The old building next door was torn down to make way for some condos. Most of the ad is covered up again.
According to the Cook County Assessor’s site, the building was assessed in 2009 and 2010 and the age is 104. So that means it was built 1904-05.
Here is a link to the Milwaukee Journal of December 9, 1915 with almost the same ad. So I think this one is pretty old. I took this in February, 2007. I had the camera, a tripod, a step-stool (to see over the flimsy construction fence) and a friend to hold me by the waist so I wouldn’t fall through the fence into the hole.
Enjoy!
Marian Saska
Thank you Marian!
Rival Dog Food – Union City, NJ – Chicago, IL
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
In 1923, Meyer Katz founded the RIVAL Packing Company of Chicago, marking the origin of RIVAL as a meat packing plant. – Biglots dot com
Vintage Quincy – Flickr
6224 N. California Ave. Chicago – Hello Chicago – Flickr
California & Granville – Chicago – Mark 2400’s Flickr Photostream
E-bay
1940s Rival Matchbook – eBay
Uncut Rival Dog Food Matchbook Sheet – Depression Press Flickr Stream
Uncut Rival Dog Food Matchbook Sheet – Greg Koenig – Flickr
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