90.5 WESA Celebrates: Inventing Pittsburgh
90.5 WESA Celebrates: Inventing Pittsburgh
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Kaufmann’s Aimed To Provide A Home Away From Home For Immigrants
4 minutes Posted Dec 18, 2015 at 11:00 am.
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“There’s Florence and London and Paris and Prague and Brussels.” Lina Insana, chair of the department of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, points to a spread from the Kaufmann's department store’s in-house magazine, Storagram, which proclaims the 30th anniversary of the “Foreign Office.” “They used these foreign offices as proof of the quality of their merchandise—how up to date that merchandise was, how up to the minute the styles were,” Insana said. At the time, many