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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 life, her interest in design, and her family opening Liebermann's luggage and gift store in downtown Lansing, Michigan. Price reflects on her youth in Saginaw, Michigan, experiences working in her great uncle's store, also called Liebermann's, coming to Lansing with her father in 1931 to open the store and to attend Michigan State College and finally leaving MSC to devote all of her time to retailing. Price says that her father told her that she could buy anything that she could sell and with that in mind, she set about creating a store inventory of items created by artists whose work appealed to her. She says that she went out of her way to get to know the artists personally and often entertained them in her East Lansing home which was designed by modernist Lansing architect Kenneth Black in 1946. She says that later moving Liebermann's to 113 N. Washington Ave in Lansing was a major business decision and that having modernist George Nelson design the new facility brought admirers to Lansing from around the world.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-05-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 107 South Washington Avenue.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- An interview of Betty Price, conducted by Bill Dansby in the Forest Parke Library and Archives, Capital Area District Libraries, in 2009. Mrs. Price and her husband owned the Liebermann's store in downtown Lansing, and she traveled the world buying goods for the store. No transcript has been produced. A summary appears on page 29-30 of the <a href="http://www.cadl.org/lhonline/Lansing 150 OH Booklet.pdf">Lansing 150 Sesquicentennial Oral Histories Booklet</a> booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing 150 Oral Histories
- Description:
- Located at 107 South Washington Avenue. The facade shows a distinct "L" in its design, by George Nelson.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Elderly couple with suitcases in hand, stand ready to leave their home.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 107 South Washington Avenue. The facade shows a distinct "L" in its design, by George Nelson.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Man with suitcase with two other men and a boy
- Date Created:
- 1948-01-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
