A&S Loves Me

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This pinback was a giveaway prize from an A&S department store in the mid 20th century. A&S, also known as Abraham and Strauss, was founded in 1865 in New York City by Abraham Abraham and Joseph Wechsler. The department store was originally named Wechsler and Abraham, but the Strauss family bought out Joseph Wechsler in 1893, renaming it Abraham and Strauss. Years later, the company would become a part of the Federated Department Stores Inc. and most of the A&S department stores would change their name in1994 to the more widely known Macy's name, another company under the Federated Department Stores Inc.