Sanger Family Portrait

ID: 943 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Fred R. Gildersleeve
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Sanger Family Portrait

Sam and Hannah Sanger sit in the center, surrounded by members of their immediate family. The success of the department store meant the Sanger family did not want for much in the early years of the twentieth-century.

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By Amanda Sawyer
Sanger Brothers department stores were often described as the pioneer retail stores of Texas. Yet these successful mercantile ventures arose from humble beginnings. Between 1852 and 1874, five of the seven Sanger brothers immigrated to America from…