Title: I. Magnin & Co. A California Legacy
Description: History of an American Department store started by a woman in San Francisco in 1876.
For 118 years the store spread across California and the west. First in San Francisco and Oakland then to Los Angeles by 1893.
The store became famous with the upper class and opened resort shops at The Del Monte, Santa Barbara Biltmore, The Los Angeles Ambassador and others. The 1920s expanded into full scale shops in Hollywood, Pasadena and Santa Barbara.
Most of the larger stores were designed by famous architects Myron Hunt, C H Chambers and Timothy Pflueger.