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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
- Zenith Radio Corporation (30)
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation (6)
- Arvin Radio (4)
- Motorola Inc. (4)

Product
- Various (15)
- Tape Recorder (6)
- Clock-Radio (5)
- Radio (5)

Subject
- Illustration--Drawing (35)
- Electronics--Misc. (31)
- Radio--Zenith (26)
- Radio--Misc. (23)

Year
- 1956 (30)
- 1950 (21)
- 1953 (21)
- 1952 (20)

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)

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For Pride and Practicality Choose Fisher Fidelity	Arvin Velvet Voice Radio	She shall have music wherever she goes	Arvin: Velvet Voice Radio
Take it anywhere, play it anywhere	G. Schirmer introduces the finest...	How you can enjoy a genuine Bogen hi-fi System at moderate cost	A new Personal Portable Radio by the makers of the INCOMPARABLE Capehart
A New Personal Portable Radio by the makers of THE INCOMPARABLE CAPEHART.	Two Superb Clock Radios by the makers of the INCOMPARABLE Capehart	Magnavox High Fidelity Custom-Engineered in Fine Furniture	Take Fun on your vacation
Which Twin has the Hi-Fi?	Just in time for Christmas New Westinghouse Personal Portable	Jo Stafford says: "Sweetest Alarm Clock I Have Ever Heard" Westinghouse Clock Radio	Take a Westinghouse Radio Home for Christmas
Snooze News! New Westinghouse Clock Radio	Jinx Falkenburg travels with a Westinghouse Portable	New! Zenith "Holiday" Super-Powered Portable!	New...and Super Powered!
Clean, Brilliant H. H. Scott Sound as low as $99.95	how will you have your high fidelity in 1956?	For Guaranteed Radio & TV Repair Call A Raytheon Bonded Dealer	Tune at a Touch up to 50 Stations on Your Automobile Radio!
Announcing...A New Global Radio	Holiday handbook	Look...even "Nuts and Bolts" are beautiful nowadays	In a pushbutton world...this is your Hi-Fi Life!
Tranquilized by Ampex	Best Buy in Hi-Fi	Bogen leaves you alone with Scheherazade	The Webcor Authentic Fonograf

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