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[Apparel Mart Showroom Closets]

Description: Photograph of a clothing showroom in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. Numerous salespeople, holding dresses and gowns from a rack of clothes along the wall, show clothes to seated producers and business people, who watch attentively. They are visible in the room's open door frame, and outside is a sign listing various companies and brands holding exhibitions in the showroom.
Date: 1960~/1979~

[Apparel Mart Showroom, Mirror Room #1]

Description: Photograph of a showroom in the Apparel Hall at the Dallas Market Center. At center, two women, one dressed in a floral gown and another holding out a red shirt, are flanked by people in formal wear seated in chairs and holding clipboards. At right is an extensive closet featuring women's clothing in various sizes and colors, aside a wall printed with a large poster featuring women in floral body suits. At left is a woman, seated at a small table with a pen, a newspaper, and an ashtray. The roo… more
Date: 1960~/1979~

[Apparel Mart Showroom, Mirror Room #2]

Description: Photograph of a showroom in the Apparel Hall at the Dallas Market Center. At center, two women, one dressed in a floral gown and another holding out a red shirt, are flanked by people in formal wear seated in chairs and holding clipboards. At right is an extensive closet featuring women's clothing in various sizes and colors, aside a wall printed with a large poster featuring women in floral body suits. At left is a woman, seated at a small table with a pen, a newspaper, and an ashtray. The roo… more
Date: 1960~/1979~

[Apparel Mart Sundries Shop]

Description: Photograph of a sundries shop in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. On a glass countertop, multiple candies, sunglasses, hangover ailments, trinkets, and other novelty items are for sale. Behind the counter are film rolls, cigars and miscellaneous boxes. Cigar boxes are arranged under the counter behind a glass display, placed sideways with their lids opened to reveal neat rows of cigars.
Date: 1960~/1979~

The Apparel Mart Tapestries in Dallas by Bjørn Wiinblad

Description: Series of folded pages that describe the tapestries commissioned to hang in the great hall of the Dallas Apparel Mart, based on the Arabian Nights stories. The first page provides background, with the handwritten text of the letter written by artist Bjørn Wiinblad describing the inspiration for the images; the second page discusses the process and shows images of the illustration versus the tapestry. The other pages provide text from the Arabian Nights for each of the five themes selected for… more
Date: October 1973
Creator: Wiinblad, Bjørn

[Armchair and Sofa Showroom, Homefurnishing Mart]

Description: Photograph of a showroom of sofas and armchairs in the Dallas Homefurnishing Mart. They are arrange in a room with red, white, and black walls, decorated with potted plants, endtables with ashtrays and lamps, and portraits hung along the walls. There are several wide sofas, cushioned and inclined. Most prominent are the armchairs, which are in different textures, colors, and designs, such as a sloped red armchair with a smooth shape, a pair of armchairs with floral designs at center, and a purp… more
Date: 1960~/1979~

[Boy at Apparel Mart]

Description: Photograph of a boy posing for a photograph in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. He stands in front of a large potted plant, several tables occupied by other guests conversing, and a large complex decorative display of plywood and mirrors arranged diagonally in layers and shaped like rectangles, lines, and trapezoids. Tiered open-air balconies decorated with plants and couches are visible at left with metal handrails and doors from higher floors.
Date: 1974-08~

[Bradley Doll Display, Market Hall]

Description: Photograph of a display of toys by Bradley Import Co. in the Dallas Market Hall. The toys, set upon a table with a blue tablecloth as well as tiered shelves behind, are porcelain or plastic dolls ranging in size. Some stand, while others are seated; some wear dresses, and some are in display cases or boxes. Three women and two men stand at the right corner of the display, one man with a clipboard. Other people along the left corner of the display walk through the shelves.
Date: 1960~/1979~

[Costumed Performers at Market Hall Stage Show]

Description: Fisheye photograph of costumed performers at a music show in the Dallas Market Hall. A drummer and his drumset are placed on stage along the back of the room. Above them is a banner indicating sponsorships by the National Bank of Commerce and Dr. Pepper. The costumed performer, an individual in a giant parrot suit, holds up a woman in a dotted dress. A singer with a microphone, standing at right, watches from afar.
Date: 1960~/1979~

[Dallas Apparel Mart Exterior, Facing North #1]

Description: Photograph of the exterior of the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. The Apparel Mart building is in the background, with wide and tall with white pillars along the side of the building every few meters. The entrance is at bottom left, with a canopy jutting out from the building, supported by rectangular white pillars, and hanging over a driveway. A parking lot, occupied by numerous cars, is paved in front of the building entrance, bounded by medians planted with trees. Three flagpoles s… more
Date: 1960~/1979~

[Dallas Apparel Mart Exterior, Facing North #2]

Description: Photograph of the exterior of the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. The Apparel Mart building is in the background, with wide and tall with white pillars along the side of the building every few meters. The entrance is at bottom center, with a canopy jutting out from the building, supported by rectangular white pillars, and hanging over a driveway. A parking lot, occupied by numerous cars, is paved in front of the building entrance, bounded by medians planted with trees. A flagpole sits… more
Date: 1960~/1979~

[Dallas Apparel Mart Exterior, Facing Northwest]

Description: Photograph of the exterior of the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. The Apparel Mart building is lined with thin white pillars every several meters under a thin and flat rectangular roof with overhanging eaves. The main entrance is at left, with a canopy jutting out from the structure, supported by white pillars and hanging over a driveway. A large parking lot is paved around the building, with grass medians and small trees planted along the driveways. The frontage road for the Stemmons… more
Date: 1960~/1979~

[Dallas Apparel Mart Exterior, Southwest Corner]

Description: Photograph of the southwest Apparel Mart exterior in the Dallas Market Center. This portion of the Apparel Market building is higher than the main structure, being built of five large concrete blocks stacked in tiers, with the smallest block at the bottom and the largest at the top, therefore making the structure take on the appearance of an upside-down pyramid or a tiered cake. Gray pillars rise vertically towards the concrete blocks, flush with the second-from-top block and extending horizont… more
Date: 1960~/1979~

[Dallas Market Center Aerial View, Looking East Before WTC]

Description: Aerial photograph of the Dallas Market Center, viewed looking east along Interstate 35E (I-35E), which runs along the right half of the image. The Apparel Mart, a white building with thin white pillars along its walls, sits in the foreground and is surrounded by large parking lots. Further down the image is the Market Hall, with arched white eaves, the Trade Mart, set obliquely from I-35E, and the Homefurnishing Mart, a short brown building mostly obscured by the Trade Mart. The World Trade Cen… more
Date: 1960~/1974~
Location: None

[Dallas Market Center Aerial View, Looking Northeast]

Description: Photograph of the Dallas Market Center. From left to right is the Market Hall, the Trade Mart, and the World Trade Center, not yet expanded to fifteen stories. Large parking lots surround all three buildings, and Interstate 35E is visible along the middle of the picture. Mostly undeveloped land sits in front of the Market Center, while behind it is a railway, Harry Hines Boulevard, and a suburban neighborhood.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Location: None

[Dallas Market Center Aerial View, Looking Northwest Before WTC]

Description: Aerial photograph of the Dallas Market Center, viewed looking northwest. From this perspective, the Market Center is located along the upper side of Interstate 35E (I-35E, which runs diagonally across the photograph at bottom left . At center left is the Apparel Mart, a black and white building, and the Market Hall below, a white building next to Market Center Boulevard running perpendicular to I-35E. To the right of Market Center Boulevard is the Trade mart, an obliquely-placed white building … more
Date: 1960~/1974~
Location: None
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