Estelle Hamburger manuscript, "Fashion Business: It's All Yours," 1975 KA.0089 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit February 28, 2017 Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Kellen Design Archives August 6, 2010 66 5th Ave./ lobby level New York, NY, 10011 212.229.5942
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Estelle Hamburger manuscript, "Fashion Business: It's All Yours," 1975
Table of Contents Collection Overview .................................................................................................................................. 2 Biographical note ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Contents of Collection ............................................................................................................. 3 Administrative Information ....................................................................................................................... 3 Related Materials ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Keywords for Searching Related Subjects ................................................................................................ 4 Collection Inventory .................................................................................................................................. 4
Collection Overview Repository
Kellen Design Archives
Creator
Hamburger, Estelle
Creator
Parsons the New School for Design. Fashion Design Dept.
Title
Estelle Hamburger manuscript, "Fashion Business: It's All Yours"
Date
1975
Extent
0.2 linear ft: 2 folders
Abstract
Manuscript created by Parsons School of Design instructor Estelle Hamburger for the book, Fashion Business: It’s All Yours (Canfield Press, 1976).
Preferred Citation note
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Estelle Hamburger manuscript, "Fashion Business: It's All Yours," 1975
[Identification of item], [date (if known)], Estelle Hamburger manuscript, "Fashion Business: It's All Yours", KA.0089, box __, folder __, New School Archives and Special Collections, The New School, New York, New York.
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Biographical note Estelle Hamburger was born in New York in approximately 1898. She left Barnard College in 1919 to work in the advertising department of Macy's, where she inaugurated a successful career in fashion merchandising. During the 1920s, she was head of promotions at Bonwit Teller and advertising director at Stern's department store before becoming executive vice president of upscale fashion retailer Jay Thorpe in the mid-1930s. In 1941, she established her own fashion merchandising consulting firm, which she led for over three decades. Clients included major department stores across the United States. A frequent lecturer on fashion and art, Hamburger was a founding member of the influential professional women's organization, the Fashion Group International. She published an instructional memoir, It's a Woman's Business (New York: Vanguard Press, 1939), and encouraged young women to pursue careers in fashion merchandising. She was a faculty member in the Fashion Design Department at Parsons School of Design during the 1972-1973 academic year. Estelle Hamburger died in New York in 1983. Return to Table of Contents »
Scope and Contents of Collection Consists of a typescript for the book The Fashion Business: It's All Yours (Canfield Press, 1976). Includes a complete manuscript accompanied by handwritten editorial notes and a carbon copy of a cover letter to editors Cindy Newell and Pearl Vapnek, dated September 29, 1975, in which Hamburger writes that she has approached Parsons students about illustrating her book. Return to Table of Contents »
Administrative Information Publication Information Kellen Design Archives August 6, 2010 Conditions Governing Access note Collection is open for research use. Please contact
[email protected] for appointment.
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Estelle Hamburger manuscript, "Fashion Business: It's All Yours," 1975
Use Restrictions To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives. Please contact:
[email protected]. Immediate Source of Acquisition note Donated by David C. Levy. Return to Table of Contents »
Related Materials The records of the Fashion Group International, the professional organization Hamburger was instrumental in founding, are held by the New York Public Library. Return to Table of Contents »
Keywords for Searching Related Subjects Genre(s) • Manuscripts. • Notebooks. Subject(s) • Fashion merchandising. • Fashion -- Vocational guidance. Return to Table of Contents »
Collection Inventory Manuscript
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Box
Folder
k_3
8-9
