Beverly Partridge Shopping Bag Collection
name: label: Collector
content: Partridge, Beverly
label: Creator
content: Partridge, Beverly
topic: label: Topic
content: Trademarks
label: Topic
content: Department stores
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection was donated to the Archives Center by Beverely Partridge in 1993.
creator: label: Collector
content: Partridge, Beverly
label: Creator
content: Partridge, Beverly
setName: label: See more items in
content: Beverly Partridge Shopping Bag Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mrs. Beverly Partridge is a resident of Canon City, Colorado.  She was born in Denver Colorado on August 15, 1937.  While working as a housewife she continued to collect shopping bags as well as Irish Beelleck China and Swizzle sticks.  She began collecting the materials for this collection in 1975 and continued until 1990.  The wide variety of designs, she found to be "interesting" and "artistic" and inspired her to begin this collection.  She observed and appreciated the changes made in the shopping bag designs of individual companies such as Bloomingdale's throughout the years.  The bags have advertising value through their attractive designs and easy recongnizability.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970-1990
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Mrs. Partridge began this collection in 1975 and continued until 1990. Her main purpose was to document the wide variety of designs and changes in designs which department stores make over the years.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0493
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Shopping bags
label: Type
content: Advertisements
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series alphabetically.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Wendy E. Morris and Kelley Gaberlavage, 1993
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Shopping bags
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection is arranged alphabetically by company name into one series. The shopping bags are from a variety of stores: department, jewelry, gifts, books, hair and skin products, clothing, china, glass, leather goods, lingerie, bakeries, and restaurants.