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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
  • CeCo Manufacturing Company (11)
  • Majestic Radio Tubes (8)
  • Perryman Radio Tubes (8)
  • Macy's (7)
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• Product
  • Radio Tubes (67)
  • Radio (11)
  • Various (9)
  • Radios (4)
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• Subject
  • 7-tube Superheterodyne (1)
  • 9-tube superheterodyne (1)
  • Ansley (1)
  • Ansley Dynatone (1)
  • Arcturus (1)
  • Arrow Radio Tubes (2)
  • Arvin Radio (2)
  • Auto Radios (1)
  • Baird Shortwave Converter (1)
  • Batteries (1)
  • Cable Radio Tube Corporation (2)
  • Cable Tube Radio Corporation (1)
  • Canadian Westinghouse Company Limited (2)
  • Capehart Corporation (3)
  • Capehart model 402-B (1)
  • Capehart Record Changer (1)
  • car radio (2)
  • CeCo Manufacturing Company (11)
  • Champion Radio Tubes (1)
  • Children (3)
  • City Radio (Yorkville Store) (1)
  • Clarostat Manufacturing Company, Inc. (1)
  • Columaire (2)
  • Columaire jr. deluxe (1)
  • Columaire Jr. DeLuxe (1)
  • Columaire Radio (1)
  • Columaire Screen Grid Super-heterodyne (1)
  • Consolidated Edison (2)
  • Contests (4)
  • Country of Publication--Canada (2)
  • Coupons (5)
  • Davega (2)
  • Davega-City Radio (1)
  • Davis Company (1)
  • DeLuxe Capehart (1)
  • E.H. Scott Radio Laboratories, Inc. (2)
  • Ergon Electric Corp. (1)
  • Ethnic Groups--African/African-American (1)
  • Fada Radio and Electric Corp. (1)
  • Fairbanks-Morse Radios (1)
  • Famous People--Ben Alley (1)
  • Famous People--Helen Nugent (1)
  • Famous People--Miriam Hopkins (1)
  • Famous People--Papyrus (1)
  • Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation (1)
  • French Battery Company (1)
  • GE Advance 1940 Combination Radio-Phono (2)
  • Gimbels (1)
  • Grigsby-Grunow Company (1)
  • Harmonicas (1)
  • Harvard Tube Testing Station (1)
  • Harvard Tube Testing Stations, Inc. (1)
  • Hohner Harmonicas (1)
  • Hygrade (1)
  • Hygrade Lamp co. (1)
  • Hygrade Lamp Co. (2)
  • Illustration--Comics (1)
  • Illustration--Drawing (58)
  • Insuline Corporation of America (2)
  • Johnsonburg Radio Corporation (4)
  • Lestein Corporation of America (2)
  • Macy's (7)
  • Majestic (2)
  • Majestic Radio Tubes (8)
  • National Union Radio Tubes (5)
  • Perryman Radio Tubes (8)
  • Philco Corporation (2)
  • Radio (11)
  • Radio--Arvin Radio (2)
  • Radio--Capehart Corporation (3)
  • Radio--General Electric (2)
  • Radio--Macy's (2)
  • Radio--Majestic (2)
  • Radio--Misc. (24)
  • Radio Programs--Football Broadcasts (2)
  • Radio Programs--Majestic Program (2)
  • Radio Programs--WABC and Columbia networks (2)
  • Radio--Radio Tubes (53)
  • Radios (4)
  • Radio Tubes (67)
  • Radio--Tubes (17)
  • Radio--Westinghouse (11)
  • Radio--Westinghouse Radio (3)
  • Retail--City Radio (2)
  • Retail--City Radio Stores (4)
  • Retail--Davega (10)
  • Retail--Davega City Radio (2)
  • Retail--Davega-City Radio (2)
  • Retail--Gimbels (2)
  • Retail--Macy's (8)
  • Retail--Radio City Stores (2)
  • Retail--Standard Stores (2)
  • Retail--Stern & Company (4)
  • Retail--Walthal's (2)
  • Sports (2)
  • Sylvania Radio Tubes (5)
  • Tung-Sol Lamp Works, Inc. (4)
  • Various (14)
  • Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (7)
  • Westinghouse Radio (5)
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• Year
  • 1930 (62)
  • 1931 (26)
  • 1932 (13)
  • 1939 (8)
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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)