The Crescent Department Store opened in Spokane Falls the day after the 4 August 1889 fire. Founded by J.M. Comstock and R.B. Paterson, it grew from a small dry goods establishment to a large department store.
The collection consists of a small group of typescript speeches delivered at the store’s twenty-fifth anniversary in 1914. Also included are some small ephemeral items of store advertising, stockholder promotional brochures and letters, and a letter for R.C. Paterson regarding an upcoming unionization vote by employees, 1948.
Collection is not restricted.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Eastern Washington State Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Museum Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Eastern Washington State Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher
Crescent Department Store Miscellany (MsSC 213), Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA.
Donated by The Crescent.
Processed to the file folder level.
Nolan, Edward W.
The Eastern Washington State Historical Society also has a large historical photograph collection from the Crescent’s advertising department.
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