Catherine Filene Shouse
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Catherine Filene Shouse was an American researcher and philanthropist. She graduated in 1918 from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She worked for the Women's Division of the U.S. Employment S
Shouse, c. 1913
Filene's
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Filene's was an American department store chain founded in 1881 by William Filene. The historic Filene's Department Store in the Downtown Crossing district of Boston, Massachusetts housed the flagship
Catherine Filene Shouse
…Massachusetts, to Abraham Lincoln Filene and the former Thérèse Weill. Born into a wealthy merchandising family, her grandfather William Filene founded Filene's department store, and her mother started the Boston Music School for Underprivileged Children. When Shouse was an undergraduate student at Wheaton…
Exterior of the former Filene's Department Store flagship store in Downtown Crossing
Primark flagship store in the former Filene's Department Store (2015)
Shoppers hurry around Filene's (center right) on Washington Street in Boston.
Boston's own variation of the saying "meet me under the clock" with the Filene's clock on Washington Street (2008)