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| SARA E. MUELLER
Sara E. Mueller was a native New Orleanian, the granddaughter of the early photographer, Samuel Moses. For sixteen years, she was the manager of, and a partner in, Hahn's Parisian Corset Parlor in the Vieux Carré. Her cousin, Robert Hahn, was a London corset manufacturer who set her up in the business, but they had a falling out in 1911. She eventually took over the operation and in 1915 opened a new store, Mueller's Parisian Corset Parlors, at 220 Baronne St. The Daily Picayune of October 13, 1901 referred to the store as “probably, not only the largest, but the only one of its kind and character in the United States. . . . Miss Sara E. Mueller, in charge, has built up a business which is the envy of Canal street.” |
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In 1914, Mueller sued Hahn for not living up to their employment agreement. The suit record includes considerable detail about the operation of the business. It also shows that she was making $1400 per year and receiving fifty per-cent of the profits from the corset parlor.
(Miss Sara E. Mueller vs Robert M. Hahn. Orleans Parish Civil District Court, #107352) |
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Miss Mueller’s new store was on the ground floor of a three-story building on Baronne between Common and Gravier Streets. When she died in 1918, Miss Mueller owned twenty-five shares of stock (valued at $100 per share) in the business, which continued to operate for several years after her passing. The full value of her estate was $7040. She was unmarried.
(Times-Picayune, November 11, 1917) |