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Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (February 13, 1863 – March 9, 1928) was an American businessman and heir to the Wanamaker's department store fortune. [1] In addition to operating stores in Philadelphia, New York City, and Paris, he was a patron of the arts, education, golf, athletics, a Native American scholar, and of early aviation.
The "Wanamaker Organ" is the largest fully operational pipe organ in the world, with some 28,750 pipes. It is famed for the delicate, orchestra-like beauty of its tone as well as its incredible power. The organ still stands in place in the store today and free recitals are held twice every day except Sunday.
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The Wanamaker Organ, the world's largest operational pipe organ; Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern, a railroad with a terminal at Wanamaker, Pennsylvania; Wanamaker Mile, an annual mile-long race held in Madison Square Garden; Wanamaker Trophy, the trophy awarded to the winner of the PGA Championship
Rodman Wanamaker sponsored Dixon, who named the project "the Rodman Wanamaker Expeditions to the Indians". Dixon was the "educational director" (essentially a public relations worker) of Philadelphia department store Wanamaker's. Wanamaker's had been founded in 1876 by Rodman's father John Wanamaker. By the turn of the century, it had grown ...
A Topeka developer has been buying available properties in the area of S.W. 6th and Wanamaker in Topeka for the past two years. Klaton LLC and Klaton Properties LLC, owned by Jim Klausman and ...
Edward J. Carlough (April 10, 1932 – June 29, 1994) was an American labor leader and president of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association from 1970 to 1993. Carlough was born in 1932 to Edward F. Carlough in New York City .
Wanamaker, c.1890. 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.