- Collection
- Archive of Alice P. Fordney
- Title
- Archive of Alice P. Fordney
- Object ID
- HC0001
- Date Range
- 1905-1974
“pioneer” in the industry of
women’s knit suits, opening her first shop in 1929 in Philadelphia.
Fordney never married. She kept in contact with her nieces and nephews, as evidenced
by letters in the collection. According to notes provided by Wendell Zercher, Sarah
Ellmaker McIlvaine Muench, her niece and