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Questions before ordering? Use this form to request more information from Zephyr Used & Rare Books About [An extraordinary archive of 295 photographs and silver prints, and 229 original designs and paintings chronicling the style trends and fashion choices spanning the first seven decades of the 20th century. The photographs reveal the prize-winning window display designs at department stores, along with fashion trends for clothing, and the marketing of appliances, household goods, women’s lingerie and sanitary products from before World War I until the Mid-20th Century, by Ray Whitnah, and later his Display Products Co. in St. Louis, Missouri. Many of the original designs created for window displays and window display companies by Whitnah are deeply influenced by Art Deco streamline designs, as well as drawing inspiration from John Held, Pogo, and other significant cartoon and commercial artists]..