Window at Metropolitan Store, Park & Tilford, Fred Barton. This window display includes Christmas giving ideas featuring "Wild Harvest" perfume from Park & Tilford. The perfume was advertised as the "daring perfume of youth". The snowy scene includes a small sleigh filled with bottles of the perfume pulled by white deer.

Metropolitan Chain Stores (Tacoma); Department stores--Tacoma; Window displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Perfumes; Christmas decorations;

Metropolitan Chain Stores were a department store located in Tacoma's downtown shopping district. Metropolitan offered their customers a wide variety of services, including key making and a luncheonette cafeteria with daily specials; Metropolitan's store manager was Walter M. Arnold. View of window display featuring "Advance" dress patterns and 15 cent underwear sale.

Department stores--Tacoma; Fabric shops--Tacoma; Merchandise displays--Tacoma; Window displays; Sewing equipment & supplies; Sewing--Tacoma; Patterns (Design elements); Metropolitan Chain Stores (Tacoma);