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An image database of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

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• Company
  • A.H. Grebe & Company, Inc. (2)
  • Acme Apparatus Corporation (1)
  • Aeolian Company (1)
  • All-American Mohawk Corporation (1)
  • American Federation of Musicians (1)
  • Arborphone Division, Consolidated Radio Corp. (1)
  • Arcturus (3)
  • Arcturus Radio Tube Company (1)
  • Atwater Kent (3)
  • Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company (2)
  • Bridge by Radio (1)
  • Bureau of Broadcasting Radio Digest (1)
  • C.E. Manufacturing Co., Inc. (1)
  • Cable Radio Tube Corporation (4)
  • Canadian Westinghouse Company Limited (2)
  • CeCo Manufacturing Company (5)
  • Champion (1)
  • Champion Radio Tubes (2)
  • Cities Service Company (1)
  • Collier's Magazine (2)
  • Columbia Phonograph Company (1)
  • Day-Fan Electric Co. (1)
  • Day Newspaper (1)
  • De Forest Audions (1)
  • De Forest Radio Company (4)
  • Diamond Electric Corporation (1)
  • E.T. Cunningham, Inc. (24)
  • Enna Jettick Shoes (1)
  • Firestone (1)
  • Fisk Tires (2)
  • French Battery Company (1)
  • Garod Corporation (1)
  • Graybar (4)
  • Graybar Radio (1)
  • Grebe Radio (1)
  • Grigsby-Grunow Company (1)
  • Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co. (1)
  • Jos. W. Jones Radio Mfg. Co., Inc. (1)
  • Julian M. White Manufacturing Company (1)
  • Ken-Rad Radio Tubes (3)
  • King Radio (1)
  • Kodel Electric & Manufacturing Co. (1)
  • Martin-Copeland Company (1)
  • Marvin Master-Built Radio Tubes (1)
  • Misc. (2)
  • Mohawk Corporation of Illinois (1)
  • Mohawk Corporation Of Illinois (1)
  • National Carbon Company, Inc. (2)
  • National Food Preservation Council (1)
  • Neutrodyne (2)
  • Perryman Radio Tubes (2)
  • Philco Electric Radio (1)
  • Powder Box radio program (1)
  • Radiocast Programs (1)
  • Radio Clearatuner Co. (1)
  • Radio Corporation of America (12)
  • Radio-Victor Corporation of America (1)
  • RCA Radiotron (6)
  • Royal Baking Powder Co. (1)
  • Seiberling Rubber CO. (1)
  • Seiberling Rubber Company (1)
  • Sonatron Radio Tubes (1)
  • Sonatron Tube Company (3)
  • Sonora Radios & Phonographs (1)
  • Standard Oil Co. of New York (1)
  • Standard Radio Manufacturing Corporation, Limited (1)
  • Stromberg-Carlson (2)
  • Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Mfg. Co. (1)
  • Sylvania Products Company (1)
  • Sylvania Radio Tubes (2)
  • Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (1)
  • Triad Manufacturing Co. (1)
  • Tung-Sol Lamp Works Inc. (1)
  • United Reproducers Corporation (2)
  • USL Battery Corporation (1)
  • Various (1)
  • Various radio stations (1)
  • Walthal's (1)
  • Ware Electric (1)
  • Weston Electrical Instrument Corp. (1)
  • Women's Home Companion (1)
  • WorkRite Manufacturing Company (3)
  • Zenith Radio (4)
  • Zenith Radio Corporation (10)
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• Product
  • Radio Tubes (75)
  • Various (17)
  • Radio (16)
  • Radio Program (12)
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• Subject
  • Radio Tubes (75)
  • Illustration--Drawing (64)
  • Radio--Radio Tubes (44)
  • Radio--Tubes (31)
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• Year
  • 1929 (74)
  • 1928 (61)
  • 1927 (19)
  • 1925 (10)
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Categories

• Beauty and Hygiene (1911 - 1956)
• Radio (1922 - 1956)
  • 1922-1929
  • 1930-1939
  • 1940-1945
  • 1946-1949
  • 1950-1956
• Television (1939 - 1957)
• Transportation (1938 - 1957)
• World War II (1942 - 1945)