Neiman Marcus Charge Card
notes: label: Description
content: This Neiman Marcus store charge card belonged to Ms. Joanne Klein during the 1980s. In the early 1900s store credit cards—or charge plates—were issued to specific customers who would pay the balance to the store at the end of the month. While a store-issued charge card was once a way to extend credit to reputable customers, by the 1980s they became an avenue for department stores to encourage repeat shoppers and store loyalty by providing perks through store credit cards. Before the adoption of magnetic strips on cards, mechanical card imprinting machines put the embossed customer’s name and identification number on a form with their receipt that linked their credit card to their purchases.
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joanne and James A. Klein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0231.01
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content: 2013.0231
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content: 2013.0231.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: store card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 1/32 in; 3.175 cm x 8.89 cm x .07938 cm