A digitized black and white photograph showing a person wearing an elevator operator uniform standing next to a vase filled with flowers atop a small pedestal. The patch on the person's chest says "Elevator 5."

Demosthene Catsiaberis, known as Sam Barris, photographed in the 1920s. He immigrated to the United States from Meligalas, Greece and worked as an elevator operator for Carson Pirie Scott.

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