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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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John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
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Company
- Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (40)
- Zenith Radio Corporation (39)
- Western Electric (34)
- Admiral Radio (9)

Product
- Radio (104)
- Various (37)
- Electronics (14)
- Corporation (13)

Subject
- Illustration--Drawing (206)
- Military (106)
- Radio (104)
- Electronics--War (82)

Year
- 1940 (9)
- 1941 (26)
- 1942 (17)
- 1943 (132)
- 1944 (90)
- 1945 (73)

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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)

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more efficient... in miniature	"Firsts" A Zenith Habit	Action in a Straight Line	Only Zenith Has This!
Electronic Prospect Appraiser Avoids Waste In Sales Effort	There's No Magic About It! It's Just Electronics At Work	Radio Out of Order? Make This Simple Home Check-Up Before You Call Your Radio Service Man	In The Arctic, In The Tropics, Admiral Radio Gets The Message Through
Delco Radios, "Battle-Proven Even Before War Started!	Magnavox... and Investment in Quality	"Hey Mac--Get In On This!"	How Precipitron Works
Maybe the Next Generation Will Just Love to Practice	electronics at work, where metal shivers to death	Crosley Presents the Rainbow of Sound	From Here To Here
Howard Radios with FM Acousticolor Tone	Motorola Radio Delivers!	"Firsts" A Zenith Habit	My friends at Bissell Weisert have taken over the sale of the last remaining Scott Radios that you can buy for the duration!
Here they Are! Your new 1946 Radios	Fighters At Home Need Radio Fun Too!	Arkansas Mud to U.S. Air Power	Where a speck of dust could hide a Nazi airdrome
Keeping the Voice of Freedom on the Air...	Only Zenith Has This!	A Distinguished Name in Television presents the new 1941 Farnsworth Phonograph-Radios at Moderate Prices Equipped with the Capehart-Farnsworth Record Changer	Danger: Electronics can smell it!
Communications By Roman Post Riders	Some good news about Tin we think you should know	Exclusive! Sensation 10 Tube Radio with Slid-A-Way Phonograph and Automatic Record Changer	What Do I Want?

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