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Smith, Jerrie Marcus
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Neiman, Carrie Marcus.
Neiman-Marcus -- History.
Businesswomen -- United States -- Biography.
Jewish women -- United States -- Biography.
Department stores -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Smith, Jerrie Marcus
Neiman, Carrie Marcus.
Neiman-Marcus -- History.
Businesswomen -- United States -- Biography.
Jewish women -- United States -- Biography.
Department stores -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
MARC Display
A
girl
named
Carrie
: the
visionary
who
created
Neiman
Marcus
and
set
the
standard
for
fashion
/ Jerrie
Marcus
Smith ; with Allison V. Smith.
by
Smith, Jerrie
Marcus
Cairn Press, 2021.
Call #:
381.141092 N414s
Subjects
Neiman
,
Carrie
Marcus
.
Neiman-Marcus -- History.
Businesswomen -- United States -- Biography.
Jewish women -- United States -- Biography.
Department stores -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780578969602 (hc)
Description:
183 p. : ill. (black and white and color) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Other title information from page 1 of cover.
Summary:
"Jerrie
Marcus
Smith remembers her great aunt
Carrie
as a humorless woman
who
always wore black and
who
, Jerrie says, 'scared me to death.' Only as an adult did Jerrie grasp the impact of
Carrie
Marcus
Neiman
. Along with her brother, Herbert
Marcus
Sr., and her husband A.L.
Neiman
,
Carrie
co-founded in 1907 the famed
Neiman
Marcus
department store in Dallas, Texas.
Carrie
played an integral role in the store's success, despite having three strikes against her: she was a woman, she was Jewish, and (after her husband's illicit relationship with a second-floor saleswoman) she was divorced. Yet with impeccable taste and exemplary manners, she traveled as a buyer to New York in the 1920s (without a man!) and, as Jerrie says, 'was nobody's pushover.'
Carrie
was self-taught and never attended college. Her only pregnancy ended in miscarriage; she worked at
Neiman
Marcus
until her death at age 66. Yet through memories shared by her father, the late
Neiman
Marcus
legend Stanley
Marcus
, as well as through spellbinding interviews with long retired salespeople, Jerrie has felt inextricably tied to
Carrie
. Each recollection of Aunt
Carrie
, each remembrance, each detail melted away Jerrie's childhood fear of the stern woman in black, leaving in its place a colorful portrait of a person to be admired, to be loved and -- perhaps most of all -- to be shared."--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
Other authors:
Smith, Allison V.
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Status
Central Library
Adult Biography
381.141092 N414s
Core Collection - Adult
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