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[J. C. Penney Outside JCPenney Co. ''Mother Store,'' Kemmerer, Wyoming]

JCPenney Collection

[J. C. Penney Outside JCPenney Co. ''Mother Store,'' Kemmerer, Wyoming], 1941

[JCPenney Fort Worth Ribbon Cutting]

[JCPenney Fort Worth
Ribbon Cutting], 1946




Dynamo, June 1918

Dynamo, June 1918

[Willie Nelson Wearing JCPenney Auto Center Hat]

[Willie Nelson Wearing JCPenney
Auto Center Hat], 1983



[JCPenney Storefront, Windsor Park Mall, San Antonio, Texas]

[JCPenney Storefront, Windsor
Park Mall, San Antonio, Texas]

Dynamo, May 1924

Dynamo, May 1924

[Sales Floor, Showing Shoe and Infants Departments, JCPenney, Amarillo, Texas]

[Sales Floor, Showing Shoe and
Infants Departments, JCPenney,
Amarillo, Texas]

About the Collection

Holding library: DeGolyer Library[J. C. Penney Outside Corporate Headquarters]

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The JCPenney corporate records and Mr. Penney’s papers document one of the nation’s largest apparel and home furnishing retailers. The collections grew from Mr. Penney's earliest records from his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in 1902. The company archives include speeches, photographs, correspondence, press releases, catalogs, annual reports, marketing materials, advertisements, documents about individual stores, policy and procedure manuals, training programs, and ephemera. 

Born in Hamilton, Missouri, James Cash Penney, Jr., began his retail career in a small dry goods store in his hometown. Mr. Penney's personal papers include correspondence, speeches, photographs, travel logs, and diaries that document the founder of the company. His papers include information about the Company, his farming operations, and his various philanthropies.

Finding aids are available in TARO for Mr. Penney's papers and for his wife's collection, the Caroline A. Penney papers.


Digitized items are or will be available from the following series in the finding aids:

From the J.C. Penney Company records collection:

From the J.C. Penney papers, 1800-2000, collection:








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