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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
- A. Stein & Company (3)
- Arrid (33)
- Avon (17)
- Barbara Gould (3)
- Barbasol (45)
- Beauty Counselors, Inc. (11)
- Boncilla Laboratories, Inc. (19)
- Bonne Bell (2)
- Botany Distributors (7)
- Bourjois (26)
- Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company (4)
- Burma-Vita Company (12)
- Carter Products, Inc. (4)
- Cellucotton Products Company (27)
- Century Chemists (2)
- Charles of the Ritz (14)
- Charm-Kurl Company (5)
- Clairol Incorporated (26)
- Colgate & Company (46)
- Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company (45)
- Contoure Laboratories, Inc. (2)
- Coty, Inc. (62)
- Courtley, Limited (2)
- Daggett & Ramsdell (2)
- Denney & Denney (7)
- Dermetics Inc. (3)
- Dial (3)
- Dorin of Paris (5)
- Dorothy Gray (53)
- Dr. West's (13)
- E. R. Squibb & Sons (44)
- Edna Wallace Hopper (14)
- Eleanor Adair (4)
- Elizabeth Arden (60)
- Eugene, Ltd. (9)
- Eugene Ltd. (2)
- Frances Denney (11)
- Germaine Monteil (17)
- H. K. Mulford Co. (14)
- H.S. Peterson & Company (7)
- Harper Method (2)
- Hattie Carnegie, Inc. (2)
- Helena Rubinstein (25)
- Helene Curtis Industries Incorporated (7)
- Houbigant (2)
- House of Stuart (4)
- House of Westmore (2)
- Hudson Products, Inc. (4)
- Irresistible (11)
- Jergens (14)
- Jeris (31)
- John Hudson Moore Inc. (3)
- Johnson & Johnson (7)
- Kay Daumit, Inc. (37)
- Kotex Company (104)
- Kreml (32)
- La Creole Laboratories (4)
- Lambert-Fesler, Inc. (4)
- Lambert Laboratories, Inc. (4)
- Lambert Pharmacal Company (7)
- Lehn & Fink Products Corp. (5)
- Lentheric (8)
- Lever Brothers Company (137)
- Lever Brothers Limited (3)
- Lewis Manufacturing Company (5)
- Luxor Limited (8)
- Luzier's, Inc. (4)
- Marie Barlow (8)
- Marie Earle (27)
- Martha Matilda Harper (6)
- Modess (68)
- Norwich Pharmacal Co. (9)
- Old South Perfumers (7)
- Palmolive Company (242)
- Paragon Distributing Corporation (9)
- Paul D. Newton & Co., Inc. (3)
- Pepsodent Company (66)
- Personal Products Corporation (19)
- Polident (9)
- Pompeian Bloom (11)
- Prince Matchabelli, Inc. (4)
- Procter & Gamble Co. (234)
- R.B. Semler, Inc. (9)
- Richard Hudnut (81)
- Rigaud (3)
- S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. (13)
- Sanitol Chemical Laboratory Company (9)
- Scandia Cosmetics Corporation (3)
- SweetHeart (25)
- Tampax Inc. (59)
- Universal Laboratories, Inc. (3)
- Van Vleet-Mansfield Laboratories (3)
- West Electric Hair Curler Company (4)
- Western Company (25)
- Westmore Cosmetics (3)
- Wildroot Company, Inc. (47)
- Woodbury (25)
- Yardley & Co., Ltd. (60)
- Yardley of London, Inc. (54)
- Zonite Products Corp. (7)

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Product
- Palmolive Soap (259)
- Sanitary Napkins (155)
- Ivory Soap (131)
- Lifebuoy Health Soap (74)

Subject
- Illustration--Drawing (1099)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Cosmetics (696)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Soaps (578)
- Beauty and Hygiene--Hair Preparations (339)

Year
- 1944 (140)
- 1945 (138)
- 1943 (125)
- 1942 (109)

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This category includes products (such as cosmetics, soaps, and shaving supplies) that were targeted for personal hygiene and enhancing one's attractiveness.

"Gee Mummy, but you're pretty!"	If You Handle Money, Use Lifebuoy Regularly	"for real comfort, try Meds internal protection!"	"...a necessity for well-groomed Men and Women," says Gypsy Rose Lee
Now! You Save 19¢	Doctors Prove Palmolive Soap Can Bring You A Lovelier Complexion in 14 days!	Eddie Is A Snow Man	The charm of London
Lord & Taylor Says They're...	"I Promise to love, honor and shave with Barbasol"	Frances Denney presents a romantic fragrance Wild Rose	You can laugh
Poise by Yardley	Live up to your Easter Bonnet!	"Don't Fuss, Mother, This Isn't So Fast"	The Romance That Lives Forever
Attendance By Card -- "Fragrance" By Yardley	Old ways seem crude once you know the lasting comfort of Kotex	Off to Work We Go!...	For instance...Squibb's Dental Cream may save you a bad case of rheumatism
Cools My Face In Seconds	... It's like finding a new and lovelier complexion!	Families Agree	Its cleaner, brighter Taste
Longer Time Between Shaves when you use Colgate's	Perhaps it was you...	Watch Out for Film	Pads need Amolin
New Glamour for You The DuBarry Way	Women Who Care	Is your skin really happy?	Have more "Paris" in your life!

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