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RECEIPTS FROM MRS. JOHN F. KENNEDY

JFK RECEIPTS
JFK RECEIPTS
JFK Receipts
JFK Receipts

BONWIT TELLER RECEIPT DATED 4/19 NO YEAR.  CHARGE TO MRS. JOHN F. KENNEDY, THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C. MEASURES 4″ X 6-11/16″

WOODWARD & LOTHROP WASHINGTON D.C. RECEIPT, CHARGE TO MRS. JOHN F. KENNEDY, 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., D.C., $2.29 FOR QUANTITY OF 7 PAPER NAPKINS.  MEASURES 7-3/8 X 3-1/4″

HISTORY OF BONWIT TELLER:

Bonwit Teller was a department store in New York City founded by Paul Bonwit. Now defunct, it was one of a group of department stores that catered to the carriage trade on Fifth Avenue, including Peck & Peck, Saks Fifth Avenue and B. Altman and Company.

HISTORY OF WOODWARD & LOTHROP:

Woodward & Lothrop was a department store chain headquartered in Washington, D.C. Woodward & Lothrop was Washington, D.C.’s first department store, opening in 1887. Woodies, as it was often nicknamed,  maintained stores in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Its flagship store was a fixture of the shopping district in downtown Washington, with Garfinckel’s, and in the late 1990s the center of controversy over competing visions for DC’s urban renewal.

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