Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 6/18/2012
Holidays on Display examines the art, industry, and history of holiday display across the United States. Focusing on parading culture and department store retail display, primarily between the 1920s and 1960s, when holiday displays were considered commercial endeavors equally rewarding for the American public, the exhibition showcases numerous photographs, postcards and rendering illustration of parade floats and window displays—including the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and Marshall Field & Company Christmas windows—as well as objects relating to the early creation of these displays.
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Macy’s, parades, 20th century, 1950s, consumerism, displays, Celebration, Commercialism, Christmas, 20th Century, suburbanization, Christmas, twentieth century, Holiday, 1960s, celebration, department stores, downtown, commercialism, urbanization
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