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  2. John Wanamaker - Wikipedia

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    John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was an American merchant and religious, civic and political figure, considered by some to be a proponent of advertising and a "pioneer in marketing". [1] He served as United States Postmaster General in the Benjamin Harrison administration from 1889 to 1893.

  3. Wanamaker's - Wikipedia

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    The logo, patterned after John Wanamaker's signature John Wanamaker, who founded the store chain in 1861 John Wanamaker's on Market Street in 1876 The Grand Court in the Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia, showing the organ façade at the south end in 1917 The flagship store directory. John Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1838.

  4. WPVI-TV - Wikipedia

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    WPVI-TV (channel 6), branded 6 ABC, is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's ABC outlet. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios on City Avenue in the Wynnefield Heights section of Philadelphia, and a transmitter in the city's Roxborough neighborhood.

  5. Zollinger-Harned Company Building - Wikipedia

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    Zollinger-Harned Company Building. /  40.60278°N 75.47056°W  / 40.60278; -75.47056. The Zollinger-Harned Company Building, now known as The Sovereign Building, is a historic department store building on Hamilton Street in the Center City section of Allentown, Pennsylvania .

  6. Mother's Day (United States) - Wikipedia

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    In its present form, Mother's Day was established by Anna Jarvis with the help of Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker following the death of her mother, Ann Jarvis, on May 9, 1905. Jarvis never mentioned Howe or Mothering Sunday , and she never mentioned any connection to the Protestant school celebrations, always claiming that the creation of ...

  7. Prime Suspect - Wikipedia

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    Prime Suspect is a British police procedural television series devised by Lynda La Plante.It stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, who rises to the rank of Detective Superintendent while confronting institutionalised sexism within the police force.

  8. Wanamaker Organ - Wikipedia

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    A Wanamaker Organ Curators Tour through the entire instrument on DVD with curator Curt Mangel and MPR host Michael Barone (Pipedreams). A Wanamaker Organ Sonic Odyssey tonal exploration of the entire instrument on DVD with Peter Richard Conte and Yale Organist Thomas Murray. See also. Philadelphia portal; Curtis Organ; Boardwalk Hall Auditorium ...

  9. WOO (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia

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    WOO was first licensed on March 18, 1922 to John Wanamaker, and the station broadcast from a sound-proof room on the 2nd floor of the Wanamaker Department Store, adjacent to the Egyptian Hall, with the transmitter located on the 11th floor. (Six days later, a second Wanamaker station, WWZ, was licensed to the New York City store.)