Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1937-circa 1995 (predominant: circa 1960-1979) (Creation)
Extent
6.5 linear feet
Name of creator
Administrative history
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The Burdines records document the company’s unique place in Florida’s retail history. Organized by subject headings are: newsletters, company documents, manuals and guides, photographs, scrapbooks and catalogs of Burdines’s sponsored community events, newspaper clippings, brochures illustrating advertising campaigns, and papers pertaining to rehabilitative measures taken by community leaders following the 1980 riot in Miami.
The bulk of the holdings date from the 1960s through the 1970s. With the exception of a volume on financing and construction in 1938, there is little pertaining to the company prior to the acquisition by Federated Department Stores. Also included are some scrapbooks and other references to the Jordan Marsh stores, which became part of Federated in 1991.
Over the years, several variations on the name Burdines have been used by the store. Except for folder headings using a variation of the name in the container list, the name Burdines is used through this document.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
The collection is open for research.
Physical access
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
gift
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
February 2018
2018-301
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Related objects are in HistoryMiami's Objects Collection.
Related descriptions
Notes element
General note
Other Information
Accession: 2005-471, 2018-301
Specialized notes
Alternative identifier(s)
Description control element
Rules or conventions
Sources used
Archivist's note
© Copyright 2019 HistoryMiami Archives & Research Center. All rights reserved.
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Jordan Marsh Company (Subject)