B l a c k M a g i c | My photostream on black The Emporium was a department store founded in 1896 in San Francisco, California. It was founded by Adolph Feiss as a co-operative of individually-owned shops in a building owned by the Parrott estate. Then in 1897, through the efforts of Frederick W. Dohrmann, a German immigrant who arrived in California in the 1860s and had made a reputation in the general merchandise and flour milling industries in the Bay Area, a merger was orchestrated with…