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Collection on Guldman Family and Golden Eagle Dry Goods

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Glass-Beaded Drawstring Purse, circa 1925

circa 1925

This blue glass-beaded purse on blue cloth with drawstring and beaded tassel at the bottom, was sold at Leopold Guldman's Golden Eagle Dry Goods store in Denver, Colorado. There is still a tag from the Golden Eagle Dry Goods store attached to the purse. Leopold Guldman opened the Denver Golden Eagle Dry Goods store in 1879 on Sixteenth Avenue and Lawrence Street in downtown Denver and was the first merchant to locate a large store on Sixteenth. The purse was made in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and features blue glass beads, probably sprayed with metallic salts for an iridescent quality. This type of purse was used by flappers in the "Roaring Twenties" as an evening bag.

Guldman, Leopold Henry, 1852-1936

Colorado

Denver (Colo.)

Czechoslovakia

1 items (whole)

https://duarchives.coalliance.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/58274

B294.02.0002.00002

Title supplied by archivist.

29 x 9 centimeters

Price tag attached to purse: "The Golden Eagle Dry Goods Co. Denver, Colo." Label inside purse: "Made in Czechoslovakia."

STORAGE

Good Glass Needlepoint

Donated by Glen Friedman, grandson of Leopold Guldman, who purchased the purse on Ebay in 2011.

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