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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
  • Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (40)
  • Zenith Radio Corporation (39)
  • Western Electric (34)
  • Admiral Radio (9)
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• Product
  • Radio (104)
  • Various (37)
  • Electronics (14)
  • Corporation (13)
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• Subject
  • Admiral Corporation (4)
  • Admiral Radio (9)
  • Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc. (4)
  • American Automatic Electric Sales Company (4)
  • Artist--Bernard La Monte (2)
  • Artist--Irwin Smith (2)
  • Artist--Keith Thomas (2)
  • Artist--Ken Sawyer (3)
  • Artist--Paul Rabut (7)
  • Artist--R (6)
  • Automatic Electric Sales Corporation (3)
  • Auto Radio (4)
  • Bendix Aviation Corporation (2)
  • Cannon Electric Development Company (7)
  • Capehart Corporation (5)
  • Capehart-Panamuse (2)
  • Children (23)
  • Clarion Radio (2)
  • Company (2)
  • Consolidated Radio Products Company (2)
  • Contest (2)
  • Contests (2)
  • Corporate ad (7)
  • Corporate Ad (2)
  • Corporation (13)
  • Coupons (2)
  • Crosley Corporation (3)
  • Delco Radio (4)
  • E.H. Scott Radio Laboratories, Inc. (9)
  • E. H. Scott Radio Laboratories, Inc. (7)
  • Edwards and Company (3)
  • Eimac tubes (2)
  • Eitel-McCullough, Inc. (5)
  • Electronics (14)
  • Electronics--Misc. (47)
  • Electronics--War (82)
  • Ethnic Groups--African/African-American (3)
  • Ethnic Groups--Asian (2)
  • Ethnic Groups--Middle East/Arab (2)
  • Fada Radio (3)
  • Famous People--Deems Taylor (2)
  • Foot-Control Auto-Radio (2)
  • Freed-Eisemann (9)
  • Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (5)
  • General Electric Company (4)
  • Hallicrafters Company (7)
  • Headphones (2)
  • Hearing Aids (3)
  • Howard Radio Company (2)
  • Illustration--Cartoons (9)
  • Illustration--Drawing (206)
  • Illustration--Painting (3)
  • Jefferson-Travis Radio Manufacturing Corporation (3)
  • Ken-Rad Corporation (6)
  • Klystron tube (2)
  • Loudspeaker Systems (2)
  • Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company, Inc. (2)
  • Meissner Manufacturing Company (5)
  • Military (106)
  • Motorola Inc. (3)
  • Motorola Radio (5)
  • Musaphonic Radio (3)
  • Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc. (2)
  • P-A-X automatic telephones (5)
  • Portable Radio (8)
  • Radar (4)
  • Radio (104)
  • Radio--Admiral Radio (9)
  • Radio--Capehart (6)
  • Radio--Fada (3)
  • Radio--Freed-Eisemann (9)
  • Radio--General Electric (4)
  • Radio--Meissner (5)
  • Radio--Misc. (14)
  • Radio--Motorola (5)
  • Radio Noise Filter (4)
  • Radio--Philharmonic (3)
  • Radio Phonograph (3)
  • Radio Programs--John Charles Thomas (7)
  • Radio Programs--Ted Malone (7)
  • Radio Programs--World News Today (4)
  • Radio--Scott (11)
  • Radio--Stewart-Warner (4)
  • Radio Tubes (8)
  • Radio--War (74)
  • Radio--Westinghouse (4)
  • Radio--Zenith (19)
  • Raytheon Manufacturing Company (3)
  • Sentinel Radio Corporation (4)
  • Stewart-Warner Corporation (4)
  • Telephone (3)
  • Telephone--Western Electric (14)
  • Tobe Deutschmann Corporation (9)
  • various (4)
  • Various (39)
  • Western Electric (34)
  • Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (3)
  • Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (40)
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation (4)
  • Zenith Radio Corporation (39)
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• Year
  • 1943 (132)
  • 1944 (90)
  • 1945 (73)
  • 1941 (26)
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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)