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[Vail-Shipley shops]

Advertisements Vail Jewelry Co., founded in 1884, was owned by Edward Vail. His daughter Jeanette married Robert Shipley in 1911. After the birth of their son Robert Shipley Jr., in 1913, Shipley Sr joined the Vail Jewelry Co. Over the next 15 years, Shipley Sr "turned Wichita's oldest jewelry store in to its largest and made the company a leader in the Midwest. He opened stores in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. He added departments for fine china and giftware, as well as a small jewelry-​manufacturing operation. In 1920, with financial help from his mother, Ida Lima Shipley, Shipley Sr bought majority ownership of the Vail Jewelry Co. from his father-in-law. In the mid-1920s, [Shipley Sr] started a second chain of stores call Vail-Shipley Shops. The shops featured their own art galleries, porcelains, stationery, and leather goods, plus furniture and an interior decorating service."-​-​Legacy of Leadership, p. 4-7. Contents: The Blue Lantern Shops (interior and entrance to the Shops; Rachel Siefkin, manager) -- The China Shop (interior; Miss Elno Hartle) -- Blue Lantern Bag Shop: specialists in costuming: Court jewelry, antique jewelry, leather bags, umbrellas, atomizers, toiletware,

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