Mr. Lanham devoted his diary entry today to enthusing over his flowers, the polyantha roses, delphiniums, iris (“a lovely sight”) and wisteria. It was a “fairly good” business day at the store. The beauty of a day in May was captured in this illustration from the Wannamaker Diary of 1927, showing a woman in an evening frock (or nighty) with an expressio…
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