Hart Schaffner & Marx

Original print 

Ice Skating

From 1921 System

9 X 12"

     This will be shipped flat in a mailer, and not rolled.

These are all original, printed at the time. These are not reproductions.

Hart Schaffner Marx's origins date to 1872 when brothers Harry and Max Hart opened a small men's clothing store on Chicago's State Street called "The Great Globe One-Price Clothier," with proprietors advertised as Harry Hart & Bro.[2][3] In 1879, the Harts' brothers-in-law, Levi Abt and Marcus Marx, joined the partnership, which was then renamed Hart, Abt & Marx.[4] Eight years later, Marx and Abt left the business and a cousin, Joseph Schaffner (1848–1918) joined the firm and it was renamed Hart, Schaffner & Marx.[5][6]

During its earliest years, the company produced work clothes sold in its own store and through other retailers in the U.S. South and Midwest. On the strength of wholesale production, Hart, Abt & Marx won contracts to produce clothing for the U.S. military. Sometime after 1880, as the company's wholesale business began to grow overtaking retail operations, its Chicago retail store was closed[7]

Gradually in the 1880s and 1890s, the company began to specialize in better-quality men's suits, overcoats, raincoats, and trousers sold at wholesale to retail clothiers, first in the states surrounding its Chicago Hub, then gradually nationwide. As early as spring 1893, the company advertised suit sizes for "stout" and "slim" men.[8]

In 1910 the company was affected by the Chicago garment workers' strike, also known as the Hart, Schaffner, and Marx strike, which led to improved conditions for workers, the first union contract with an arbitration provision, and the founding of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.[9]

Hart Schaffner & Marx advertisement by John E. Sheridan, 1919On May 10, 1911, after years of steady growth, the partnership was incorporated. During World War I, the company introduced the first tropical worsted suits and the company's facilities were used to produce uniforms.

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