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Text on Button Carson Pirie Scott & co. sun! color! life! CALIFORNIA
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Orange and black text on a yellow background with three orange squares with black text along the top edge

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Carson Pirie Scott is an American department store and mixed goods retailer that was founded in 1854. Originally a mail order company, Carsons expanded to a physical department store in 1899. The Carson, Pirie, Scott, and Company department store was constructed in two stages in 1899 and 1903-04 by well-known architect, Louis Sullivan. Throughout the years, the department store sold a variety of clothing merchandise, including a line of hats by ‘Louis of California’ referenced in the image.

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Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building. (n.d.) Arts and Humanities. Retrieved from https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-…

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