Gold Rush-era jeans billed as world’s oldest sell for $114,000. But were they Levi’s? Work pants with a five-button fly, recovered from the 1857 sinking of the SS Central America, sold for ...

Levi Strauss, the clothing company with roots in the California Gold Rush, filed a trademark complaint against a Japanese company and two U.S. businesses it says have infringed on its iconic ...

Levi Strauss & Co., the California Gold Rush outfitter whose trademark blue jeans have been an American clothing staple for generations, on Thursday closed its last two sewing plants in the United ...

Levi Strauss had at least 14 similar shipments averaging $91,033 each from 1856-58, Holabird said. "Strauss is selling to every decent-sized dry goods store in the California gold regions ...

Bang in the middle of the California Gold Rush (1848-1859), Levi Strauss, a German immigrant in the United States, moved to San Francisco to open a West Coast branch of the family's dry goods ...

Levi's were not made during the California Gold Rush. Share this: Click to share on Facebook ... May 20, 1873, marks the day that Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received their patent for riveted pants.

In 1853, a Bavarian immigrant named Levi Strauss started a dry good wholesaling business in San Francisco, selling supplies to miners during the California Gold Rush. By 1873, Strauss invented the ...

Bavarian immigrant Levi Strauss started the company in the mid-1800s during the California Gold Rush. Levi Strauss & Co. first went public in 1971, before the family took it private again amid ...

The denim-maker was originally founded in 1853 when Bavarian-born Levi Strauss opened a store in San Francisco to sell pants to miners during the California Gold Rush. Levi Strauss and partner ...

During the building's temporary closure, The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM) invites you to a virtual tour of the exhibition "Levi Strauss: A History of American Style," celebrating the life ...