NAMM STORE

FULTON & HOYT STREETS, 1898.


Looks like every customer in NAMM'S shoe department had a clerk of his/her own sex. 

The saleswoman uses a button hook to unfasten her customer's overgaiters before trying on a rather 
sensible shoe, definitely not the one advertised above her. 

Merchandise ran the gamut from fancy slippers to sturdy leggins, pairs of which hang at the right. 

The store opened in New York by Adolph I. NAMM in 1876. 

Ten years later, he moved it to Brooklyn, where it operated until 1957.

NAMM'S last horse-drawn delivery wagon about 1914, was soon to give way to trucks.

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