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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
  • Yardley of London, Inc. (47)
  • Richard Hudnut (39)
  • Coty, Inc. (36)
  • Dorothy Gray (27)
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• Product
  • "Change-over" Treatment (1)
  • "English Complexion" (1)
  • "Informal Fragrances" (1)
  • "Paris" Perfume (1)
  • Abano Bath Oil (1)
  • Air-Spun Make-Up (3)
  • Apple Blossom (1)
  • Assorted Dermetics products (1)
  • Avon Cosmetics (15)
  • Barbara Gould Velvet of Roses dry skin cream (1)
  • Beauty Balm (1)
  • Beauty Balm and face powder (1)
  • Beauty Balm and Face Powder (1)
  • Beauty Classes (1)
  • Beauty Counselors (4)
  • Beauty in the Morning (1)
  • Beauty in the Morning Facial Cleanser (2)
  • beauty time-savers (2)
  • Bond Street Beauty Preparations (7)
  • Bond Street Cosmetics (4)
  • Bond Street Perfume and Beauty Preparations (4)
  • Bonne Bell's Plus 30 Cream (1)
  • Botany Lanolin Beauty Aids (7)
  • Bourjois Perfumes (1)
  • Burnt Sugar Lipstick (1)
  • Cellogen Cream (1)
  • Chantilly Cosmetics (1)
  • Charles of the Ritz (1)
  • Cleansing Cream (1)
  • Cleansing Cream, Skin Freshner, Conditioning Cream (2)
  • Cockade color makeup (1)
  • Color-Spectograph (1)
  • Command Performance make-up line (1)
  • Complete Beauty Cream (1)
  • Cosmetic gifts (3)
  • Cosmetics (16)
  • Cosmetics and Perfume (1)
  • Cosmetics and Perfumes (3)
  • Coty (1)
  • Coty fragrances (1)
  • Coty Make-Up (1)
  • Crackerjack make-up (1)
  • Creams (1)
  • Daggett and Ramsdell (1)
  • Dermetics Aging Beauty Program (1)
  • Dorothy Gray (1)
  • Dorothy Gray Cosmetics (21)
  • Dry Skin Cream (1)
  • DuBarry Beauty Cake Make-up (1)
  • DuBarry Cleansing Cream (1)
  • DuBarry creams and lipsticks (1)
  • DuBarry Face Powder (1)
  • DuBarry Foundation (1)
  • DuBarry Foundation Lotion (1)
  • DuBarry Home Success Course (1)
  • DuBarry Leg Make-up (1)
  • DuBarry lipstick (2)
  • DuBarry Special Cleansing Preparation (3)
  • DuBarry Special Cleansing Preparations (1)
  • DuBarry Success Course (4)
  • Du Barry Success Course (1)
  • DuBarry Success-O-Plan (2)
  • Du Barry Success School (1)
  • Duchess of York Make-ups (2)
  • Dynamite Lipstick (1)
  • Efficiency Kit (1)
  • Elation lipstick, perfume, change purse (1)
  • Elizabeth Arden (1)
  • Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics (13)
  • Elizabeth Arden health and beauty classes (1)
  • Elizabeth Arden Passive Reducing Treatments (1)
  • Emeraude accessories (1)
  • Emeraude Cosmetics (3)
  • English Lavender and Beauty Preparations (1)
  • English Lavender Cosmetics (13)
  • Evening in Paris Cosmetics (12)
  • Face Powder and Beauty Balm (1)
  • Facial Creams (1)
  • Fatal Apple Lipstick (1)
  • Film-Finish Powder (1)
  • Froken Scandia (1)
  • Gaiety Red makeup (1)
  • H. Rubinstein's Color-Spectrograph approach (1)
  • Hattie Carnegie Cosmetics (2)
  • Hudnut Salon Success School (2)
  • Hudnut Success School (2)
  • L'aimant Cosmetics (2)
  • Marvelous Face Powder (2)
  • Moss Rose Cosmetics (2)
  • Muguet des Bois Cosmetics (4)
  • Old South Toiletries (2)
  • Patent Ganesh Forehead Strap (2)
  • perfume (2)
  • Scandia's Creme Rose (2)
  • Seventeen Cosmetics (2)
  • Skin Treatments (2)
  • Tussy Cosmetics (5)
  • Various (42)
  • Vibrant color Make-Up (2)
  • Yardley's English Lavender (8)
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• Subject
  • Illustration--Drawing (174)
  • Yardley of London, Inc. (47)
  • Various (42)
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• Year
  • 1944 (57)
  • 1945 (52)
  • 1943 (44)
  • 1941 (41)
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Categories

• Beauty and Hygiene (1911 - 1956)
  • Cosmetics: 1920s
  • Cosmetics: 1930s
  • Cosmetics: 1940s
  • Cosmetics: 1950s
  • Dental Supplies: 1911-1929
  • Dental Supplies: 1930s
  • Dental Supplies: 1940s-1950s
  • Deodorant: 1925-1952
  • Feminine Hygiene: 1920s
  • Feminine Hygiene: 1930s
  • Feminine Hygiene: 1940s
  • Feminine Hygiene: 1950s
  • Hair Preparations: 1917-1939
  • Hair Preparations: 1940s
  • Hair Preparations: 1950s
  • Rouge: 1918-1930
  • Shaving Supplies: 1914-1953
  • Soaps: 1920s
  • Soaps: 1930s
  • Soaps: 1940s
  • Soaps: 1950s
• Radio (1922 - 1956)
• Television (1939 - 1957)
• Transportation (1938 - 1957)
• World War II (1942 - 1945)