American Decades
Installment Buying
"How to Budget, How to Pay, The Budget Credit Book Shows the Way"
Pamphlet
By: John Wanamaker Department Store, New York
Date: December 1925
Source: "How to Budget, How to Pay, The Budget Credit Book Shows the Way." New York: John Wanamaker, 1925, 2, 6–7, 12–13. Reproduced in "Calvin Coolidge Papers. Credit-Installment Plan Buying 1926–29." Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921–1929. American Memory digital primary source collection, Library of Congress. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html; website home page: http://memory.loc.gov (accessed May 12, 2003).
About the Organization: John Wanamaker opened his first store in Philadelphia in 1876; it is considered the first retail department...
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- "The Negro Working Woman"
- Twelfth Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 1924
- The Real Estate Boom
- Installment Buying
- Regulating Radio
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- "No Backward Step in Federal Aid For Road Building Can Be Taken"
- Calvin Coolidge And Nicaragua
- "Open Letter to the Pullman Company"
- "The Present Status and Future Prospects of Chains of Department Stores"
- Federal Farm Policy
- "Hamlin Memorandum and Diary Extracts, Showing Federal Reserve Board Response to 1927 Recession and Stock Market: July 1, 1927–January 4, 1929"
- "A New Era … an Economic Revolution of the Profoundest Character"
- "Brokers and Suckers"
- The Southern Urban Negro as Consumer
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
