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Old 5 Hale Brothers Department Store, Sacramento, Cal Yosemite Park Prints 12x14
$ 20.32
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Description
Early 1900’s 5 different Hale Brothers & Company Department Store, Sacramento, California, Yosemite National Park prints. The large heavy paper (cannot bend) prints are 11 ¾ x 13 ¾ inches in size. The prints are of different early scenes inside Yosemite Valley inside Yosemite National Park The scenes are titledTHE HALF DOME,
NEVADA FALLS,
VERNAL FALLS,
CATHEDRAL ROCKS,
GENERAL VIEW
The prints state in part
“COMPLIMENTS OF HALE BROTHER’S & CO., NINTH AND K STREETS, SACRAMENTO”
One print has a sms two one inch tears, one at the top edge and the other at the bottom edge. The prints do some light wear to a few corners and overall are in nice condition, especially for the age.
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Hale Bros.
Hale's
or Hale Bros., was a department store based in
Sacramento
with branches throughout the
San Francisco Bay Area
.
In 1880
Prentis Cobb Hale
and his two brothers opened the Criterion store in
Downtown Sacramento
, and in 1881 they renamed it Hale Brothers & Company.
[1]
The company opened large branches in
San Francisco
(1892)
[2]
and
San Jose
(1896), Salinas, Stockton and Petaluma, and via an acquisition of Whitthorne & Swann in 1906, Oakland.
[3]
The Sacramento store was last located at 825-831
K Street
, with a storefront measuring some 123 feet on K and 160 feet on Ninth.
[4]
[5]
The San Jose store was at the corner of 1st and San Carlos. The San Francisco store was first located at 989 Market Street, then moved to 901 Market at Fifth in a building designed by
Reid & Reid
.
[6]
In 1949, Hale's bought their Sacramento rival,
Weinstock, Lubin & Co.
[7]
In the same year, Hale's merged with
Los Angeles
-based
Broadway Department Stores
, becoming
Broadway-Hale Stores
, Carter Hawley Hale Stores
, and later
Broadway-Hale Stores
.
Hale Bros. had 30% ownership of
J. M. Hale
Co., also known as Hales, in Los Angeles, founded by one of the Hale Brothers, James M. Hale (1846-1946)