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- Retailing legend Betty Price talks about Liebermann's, the high-end luggage and gift store operated by her family in Lansing, Michigan. She says that her father gave her full control of the basement area of the store for her gift items and she discusses how she selected her inventory, how customers reacted to her contemporary offerings and how she took the time to "educate" them about the pieces she sold. Price also talks about modernist icon George Nelson who designed the 113 N. Washington Liebermann's store in 1966 and about entertaining him and other artists in her East Lansing home. Price says that throughout her career, she never felt discriminated against because of her gender.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-05-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Retailing legend Betty Price talks about her Liebermann's gift store in downtown Lansing, Michigan during a question and answer session at Schuler Books in Okemos, MI. Price discusses her merchandising and customer philosophy, her eye for art and talent, her long friendship and professional relationship with modernist designer George Nelson and their collaborative effort to create a classy, unique environment in her store. She also describes learning the business from her father and then making it her own, selecting merchandise for quality, cost and design and training her sales staff to help select exactly the right piece for a customer. Price is interviewed by Sandra Seaton, recent author of an article on Price in "Modernism" mnagazine and the MSU College of Law Writer in Residence.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-10-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Tom Price, son of retailing legend Betty Price, talks with with his mother and Sandra Seaton about the innovative design of the 113 N. Washington Liebermann's store in Lansing, Michigan, created by modernist designer George Nelson. Price explains how Nelson came to accept a commission to design the retail facility, design elements featured in his work and the possibility of having the N. Washington site named an historic building.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-05-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Retailing legend Betty Price talks about her Liebermann's gift store in downtown Lansing, Michigan during a question and answer session at Schuler Books in Okemos, MI. Price discusses her merchandising and customer philosophy, her eye for art and talent, her long friendship and professional relationship with modernist designer George Nelson and their collaborative effort to create a classy, unique environment in her store. She also describes learning the business from her father and then making it her own, selecting merchandise for quality, cost and design and training her sales staff to help select exactly the right piece for a customer. Price is interviewed by Sandra Seaton, recent author of an article on Price in "Modernism" mnagazine and the MSU College of Law Writer in Residence.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-10-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Gladys Welch says she joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps because two of her brothers were in the military and she felt she also needed to serve and that she actually served two "hitches" in the Army. She was first stationed in Iran from 1943 to 1946, during World War II and later reenlisted for service in Europe from 1946 to 1958. Welch recalls the heat in Iran and visiting the Holy Land while on leave and traveling extensively throughout Europe. She says that she did not initially plan on an Army career, but found adjusting to military life to be easy decided to reenlist and serve to retirement. Welch also says that after her discharge, she returned to private nursing and taught psychiatric nursing at Mercy Hospital. Welch is interviewed by Marjorie Brown.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-03-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Tom Price, son of retailing legend Betty Price, talks with with his mother and Sandra Seaton about the innovative design of the 113 N. Washington Liebermann's store in Lansing, Michigan, created by modernist designer George Nelson. Price explains how Nelson came to accept a commission to design the retail facility, design elements featured in his work and the possibility of having the N. Washington site named an historic building.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-05-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Retailing legend Betty Price talks about Liebermann's, the high-end luggage and gift store operated by her family in Lansing, Michigan. She says that her father gave her full control of the basement area of the store for her gift items and she discusses how she selected her inventory, how customers reacted to her contemporary offerings and how she took the time to "educate" them about the pieces she sold. Price also talks about modernist icon George Nelson who designed the 113 N. Washington Liebermann's store in 1966 and about entertaining him and other artists in her East Lansing home. Price says that throughout her career, she never felt discriminated against because of her gender.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-05-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection