{"id":13681,"date":"2013-07-13T01:38:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=13681"},"modified":"2020-07-27T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T14:49:06","slug":"uptown-correspondent-iman-r-abdulfattah-millers-5-10%c2%a2-store-frenchtown-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2013\/07\/13\/uptown-correspondent-iman-r-abdulfattah-millers-5-10%c2%a2-store-frenchtown-nj\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptown Correspondent – Iman R. Abdulfattah – Miller’s 5 & 10\u00a2 Store – Frenchtown, NJ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9 Iman R. Abdulfattah<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m trying to decipher the name of the business underneath and it looks like a name that ends with -TON Bros. Still looking for archival photos and newspapers from Frenchtown.<\/p>\n\n\n

UPDATE: From Rick Epstein to Iman Abdulfattah on May 30, 2020<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Iman,
I stumbled across your fading ads from Frenchtown and I can tell you about those businesses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words under Miller’s 5 & 10 are BRITTON BROS. The Britton Bros Big Brick Store was the biggest department store in the county from the 1890s through the 1920s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newspaper that was advertising on its exterior wall was the Hunterdon Independent (1871-1942) which was a weekly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can tell you more if you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick Epstein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS: I’m collecting info for a historical encyclopedia of Frenchtown. If you have any info to share, I would appreciate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iman Abdulfattah to Rick Epstein: On June 7, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took those photos several yeast ago. I am afraid I do not recall the occasion or why I was in Frenchtown to begin with. In any event, I don’t have any additional details to share and I am afraid that images were lost when my external hard drive crashed two years ago.
Yes, I would love to know more.
Peace, Iman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— 
Ms. Iman R. Abdulfattah<\/strong>
PhD Candidate in Islamic Art and Archaeology Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t BonnIslamic Archaeology Research Unit
https:\/\/www.islamic-archaeology.uni-bonn.de\/Associated%20Members\/doctoral-students\/iman-r.-abdulfattah<\/a>https:\/\/uni-bonn.academia.edu\/ImanRAbdulfattah<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adjunct Instructor: NYU School of Professional Studies. https:\/\/www.sps.nyu.edu\/professional-pathways\/faculty\/20037-iman-abdulfattah.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See next page for more information about this business:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

BRITTON BROS. BIG BRICK STORE \u2013 <\/strong>The brothers started in a small way in 1877, with what the Star would later describe as a \u201cwheelbarrow load of goods in the little 14-foot room on Race st.\u201d In 1882 they boasted that they were manufacturing more harness than anyone else in Hunterdon County. They also made saddles and leather fly nets (stringy garments draped over horses to disconcert and dislodge horse flies). When Hugh Warford died in 1887, he was unable to take 10 Bridge Street with him, so the Britton brothers bought the three-story brick building for $3,200 in 1888.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the biggest department store in the county. (See Appendix C for a complete list of the store’s merchandise of 1915.) According to a 1916 booklet called Frenchtown Uptodate, \u201cThe large aisles afford patrons ample space to pass one another, chairs placed along the counters afford them an opportunity to rest in looking over goods which they are contemplating purchasing. The wide shelves are loaded with all kinds of dress goods, suits, hats, ladies’ and gents’ furnishings, laces, furs, carpets, an assortment of cut glass ware and gifts, toys, games, hardware, while in the basement is employed I.W. \u201cBrice\u201d Swick, who for years has manufactured harness for the firm. (This is Isaac W. Swick, 1866-1929)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis store is the one which has installed a system of cash boxes moving swiftly from one department to another, fitted up in the same manner as the stores located in the large cities.\u201d Ruth Apgar, who lived next door, told me that her job was to sit in a tiny elevated office in the middle of the store. Clerks in the various departments would send sales slips and money to her in little metal boxes that moved along chains. She’d send back change and receipts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 1922, the store was managed by William G. Britton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Britton estate sold the building in 1930 to C. Wilmot Milbury.
– Rick Epstein, June 7, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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