Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum – The Most Successful Billboard in New York City History
Fredericka “Marm” Mandelbaum was born in 1818 in the country of Prussia. She immigrated to the United States in 1848 with her husband Wolfe Mandelbaum. Mandelbaum, a heavyset woman weighing more than 250 pounds, opened a dry goods store at 79 Clinton Street, the corner of Rivington, on the ground floor of a three-story building that she later bought with […]
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