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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
  • American Airlines, Inc. (12)
  • Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. (12)
  • United Air Lines (12)
  • Braniff Airways (6)
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• Product
  • American Airlines (6)
  • Air Travel (5)
  • Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. (5)
  • Braniff Airways (3)
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• Subject
  • Aircargo (1)
  • Air Transportation (1)
  • Air Travel (5)
  • American Airlines (6)
  • American Airlines, Inc. (12)
  • Artist--H.C. McBarron (1)
  • Artist--Illegible (1)
  • Artist--Maria de Kammerer (1)
  • Braniff Airways (6)
  • Canada (1)
  • Chicago and Southern Air Lines (1)
  • Children (3)
  • Colonial Airlines (1)
  • constellation (1)
  • Detroit and Chicago (1)
  • Direct Service to Washington, D.C. (1)
  • Eastern Air Lines Inc. (1)
  • Eastern Expediter (1)
  • Ethnic Groups--Native American (1)
  • Ethnic Groups--Pacific Islander (1)
  • Famous People--A.N. Kemp, President, American Airlines (1)
  • Famous People--Henry A. Wallace, Braniff Airways VP (1)
  • Flying Dutchman (1)
  • future travel (1)
  • Illustration--Drawing (40)
  • Illustrator--B.U.K. (1)
  • Illustrator--Lyman Anderson (1)
  • Illustrator--M. Brindle (1)
  • International Air Express (1)
  • KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (2)
  • Mexico City and Monterrey (1)
  • Military (6)
  • Montreal (1)
  • New York - Toronto (1)
  • Northwest Airlines (2)
  • Pan American Grace Airways (1)
  • Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc. (1)
  • Pennsylvania Central Airlines (1)
  • Phoenix (1)
  • Postwar Airflights (1)
  • Postwar Travel Agency Programs (1)
  • Service (1)
  • South America (1)
  • The Airlines of the United States (1)
  • Trans-Canada Air Lines (2)
  • Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. (12)
  • Trans World Airline (2)
  • Travel Agency Program (1)
  • TWA-AAF Air Transport Command Support (1)
  • United Air Lines (12)
  • various destinations (3)
  • war performance (1)
  • war support (1)
  • War Support (3)
  • Wartime Schedules (1)
  • War Transportation (1)
  • Washington (1)
  • Western Air Lines (1)
  • Western Hemisphere Transportation (1)
  • Western US (1)
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• Year
  • 1943 (34)
  • 1944 (23)

Categories

• Beauty and Hygiene (1911 - 1956)
• Radio (1922 - 1956)
• Television (1939 - 1957)
• Transportation (1938 - 1957)
  • Aircraft: 1946-1952
  • Airlines: 1938-1942
  • Airlines: 1943-1944
  • Airlines: 1945
  • Airlines: 1946
  • Airlines: 1947
  • Airlines: 1948
  • Airlines: 1949
  • Airlines: 1950
  • Airlines: 1951
  • Airlines: 1952
  • Airlines: 1953
  • Airlines: 1954-1957
  • Buses: 1945
  • Buses: 1946
  • Buses: 1947-1949
  • Buses: 1950-1954
  • Rental Cars: 1947-1954
  • Railroads: 1944
  • Railroads: 1945
  • Railroads: 1946
  • Railroads: 1947
  • Railroads: 1948
  • Railroads: 1949
  • Railroads: 1950
  • Railroads: 1951
  • Railroads: 1952
  • Railroads: 1953
  • Railroads: 1954
  • Ships: 1946-1949
  • Ships: 1950-1954
• World War II (1942 - 1945)