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Meet Me At the Mall: An Architectural and Cultural History
Album Description
Welcome to “Meet Me at the Mall: An Architectural and Cultural History.” In this album, you’ll take a nostalgic, quasi-academic romp into the “mall culture” of the 1980s and 90s. You'll go even further back, tracing the mall's history from 19th-century emporiums and its early manifestations during America's midcentury.
You’ll learn about this heyday of American consumption and reflect on what this history implies for our present modes of shopping. Get your side-ponytails and scrunchies ready because…we’re going to the mall!
13+ Underground shopping mall, Houston, Texas
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2011631112/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Created / Published: [between 1980 and 2006]
Subject Headings: - United States--Texas--Houston
- America
- Shopping malls
Genre: Transparencies--Color--1980-2010
Notes: - Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.
- Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.
- Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:124).
- Forms part of the Selects Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: highsm 12918 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.12918
Georgetown Park shopping mall in Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2011635838/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Created / Published: [between 1980 and 2006]
Subject Headings: - United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
- America
- Georgetown
- Georgetown Park
- Shopping malls
Genre: Transparencies--Color--1980-2010
Notes: - Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.
- Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.
- Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:124).
- Forms part of the Selects Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: highsm 17644 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.17644
Victor Gruen’s Shopping Towns U.S.A.
Growing up in Paterson
Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip003177/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Titus, Robert "Barney" (Narrator)
Dale, Robert (Narrator)
McCarl, Robert (Interviewer)
Created / Published: 1994-08-05
Subject Headings: - Bars (Drinking establishments)
- Community events
- Oral history
- Interviews
- Sound recordings
- Neighborhood
- Watson Machine International
- Ethnography
- United States -- New Jersey -- Paterson
Genre: Ethnography
Interviews
Notes: - Interview with Barney Titus at Watson Machine International.
- Summary of audio segment: Bob Dale tells what is was like growing up in Paterson. Paterson was beautiful then . . . we used to have convertibles. . . . There was no suburban sprawl then . . . no malls. The shopping was all downtown and we used to cruise down here when were seventeen, eighteen. All the girls would be shopping on Friday nights. Their mothers would be there, this wonderful . . . Quackenbushes, Meyer Brothers, Sterns . . . They were all in Paterson. It was beautiful. It was beautiful.
Repository: American Folklife Center
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.rma00102
Citadel Mall, Port Huron, Michigan
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017707268/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Margolies, John, photographer
Created / Published: 1988.
Subject Headings: - United States--Michigan--Port Huron
Genre: Slides--1980-1990.--Color
Notes: - Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
- Margolies category: Main Street.
- Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142).
- Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
- Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: mrg 05175 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.05175
Tremont St., mall, Boston, Mass.
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2016799663/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
Created / Published: c1904.
Subject Headings: - Streets
- Parks
- Commercial facilities
- United States--Massachusetts--Boston
Genre: Dry plate negatives
Notes: - Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30009.
- At edge of Boston Common.
- "1664 A" on negative.
- Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017026.
- Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: det 4a11338 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a11338
Harundale Mall, Glen Burnie, Maryland. Interior view
The Colossus of Market Places--the Merchandise Mart., Chicago, Ill.
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2018649177/
Reference note
Created / Published: [1931]
Subject Headings: - Shopping centers--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940
Genre: Photographic prints--1930-1940
Stereographs--1930-1940
Notes: - No. 32682.
- Title from item.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: stereo 1s12340 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s12340
Shopping center and motion picture theater integrated with the architecture of the federal housing project at Greenbelt, Md.
Midtown Plaza, Rochester, New York. Interior view
[Levittown Center shopping center, Levittown, Long Island, N.Y.] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins.
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/98510726/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Higgins, Roger, photographer
Created / Published: 1957.
Subject Headings: - Shopping centers--New York (State)--Levittown--1950-1960
- Automobiles--New York (State)--Levittown--1950-1960
Notes: - NYWT&S staff photo.
- New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: cph 3c21069 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c21069
Shopping center, Great Neck, Long Island, New York. Wanamakers I
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2018724680/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., photographer
Douglass, Lathrop, architect
Created / Published: 1951 Dec. 1.
Subject Headings: - Shopping centers
- United States--New York (State)--Great Neck
Genre: Acetate negatives
Notes: - Title and date from original negative sleeves or photographer's registers.
- Credit line: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- General information about the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gsc
- Forms part of: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Temp. note: Batch one.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: gsc 5a20790 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/gsc.5a20790
Cross County Shopping Center. Gimbels
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2018728341/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., photographer
Douglass, Lathrop, client
Created / Published: 1956 Apr. 19.
Subject Headings: - Shopping centers
- United States--New York (State)
Genre: Acetate negatives
Notes: - Title and date from original negative sleeves or photographer's registers.
- Credit line: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- General information about the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gsc
- Forms part of: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Temp. note: Batch two.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: gsc 5a24396 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/gsc.5a24396
Cortez Plaza Shopping Center, Bradenton, Florida. Mall II
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/gsc.5a27165/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., photographer
Douglass, Lathrop, client
Created / Published: 1959 Nov.
Subject Headings: - Shopping centers
- United States--Florida--Bradenton
Genre: Acetate negatives
Notes: - Title and date from original negative sleeves or photographer's registers.
- Credit line: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- General information about the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gsc
- Forms part of: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Temp. note: Batch two.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: gsc 5a27165 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/gsc.5a27165