Uniform, Occupational
Object number92.73.315 a-h
Date1950-1960
MediumCotton; Ink; Various metals; Leather; Rubber; Plastic
Credit LineGift of Gertrude Kins.
DescriptionRed and white A&P grocery store uniform consitsing of a dress, smock, apron, pin, pair of sneakers, hat, and hairnet.Dimensions(a) Width--17.5 ... Length--45(b) Width--17.5 ... Length--31.5
(c) W--75.75 ... L--15.5
(d) W--1.75 ... L--2.75
(e) W--3.5 ... L--10.375
(f) W--3.25 ... L--10.25
(g) [Lying Flat]: W--5 ... L--13
(h) W--10 ... L--8
Marks(a)
Rectangular white label with red embroidered text "46" and handwritten text in black ink "B 46x44".
(b)
Circular patch on proper left sleeve is white with red embroidered "A&P".
(d)
Pin has text "A&P / GERT / "we care...about you!"
(g)
Two white square labels, on each front side, each has embroidered text "A&P".
Historical NotesFrom contents of the Kins family home, 190 36th St., Pittsburgh. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, is a 410-store supermarket chain with locations in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1859 as The Great American Tea Company by George Huntington Hartford and George Gilman in Elmira, New York. It was renamed "The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company" in 1870, and John and George Hartford, founder Hartford's sons, joined the company in the 1880s. In 1912, the first A&P Economy Store opened, a grocery store format that allowed cost-cutting and standardized layout, increasing their store numbers to 1600 by 1915. By 1925, they had 13,961 stores and sales of $437 million. In 1936 A&P opened their first supermarket in Braddock, Pennsylvania.
Previous owner
Gertrude Kins
Related institution
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
On View
On viewCollections
1847-1969
c. 1980
