Schoenfeld Brothers, Incorporated, operated this location as a sales branch office for neckties manufactured by their company in a factory in New York, NY's Garment District. They were operating at this address in 1911. In 1924, the Schoenfelds reversed the pattern, producing ties in Seattle, WA, and selling them through a branch office in New York. Costs had risen so much in New York after World War I, that Seattle manufacturing became more economical. Max (1881-1990) and Theodore Schoenfeld (born c. 1878 in Mandel, Germany) supervised operations in Seattle; they brought out from New York one foreman and one tie-maker to establish a factory and workforce in WA. Another brother, Herman (born c. 1876 in Mandel, Germany) oversaw the business in the East.

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