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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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Yardley of London, Inc.
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Richard Hudnut
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Coty, Inc.
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Dorothy Gray
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Various
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Dorothy Gray Cosmetics
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Cosmetics
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Avon Cosmetics
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Illustration--Drawing
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Yardley of London, Inc.
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1944
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1945
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1943
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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)
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Frances Denney presents a romantic fragrance Wild Rose
Product:
Wild Rose fragrance and makeup
Company:
Frances Denney
Year:
1940
Item Number:
BH1513
Live up to your Easter Bonnet!
Product:
Helena Rubinstein Face Treatment and Salon
Company:
Helena Rubinstein
Year:
1944
Item Number:
BH1841
The Romance That Lives Forever
Product:
Old South Toiletries
Company:
Old South Perfumers
Year:
1946
Item Number:
BH1928
Open Your Door To Beauty, try before you buy
Product:
Beauty Counselors
Company:
Beauty Counselors, Inc.
Year:
1941
Item Number:
BH1440
With a Pretty Trousseau and Looks to Match, This G.I.'s Fiancee Plans a Honeymoon in Gaspe
Product:
DuBarry Success-O-Plan
Company:
Richard Hudnut
Year:
1945
Item Number:
BH1906
It's Happening To You
Product:
Efficiency Kit
Company:
Elizabeth Arden
Year:
1943
Item Number:
BH1366
Plan for Perfection
Product:
Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics
Company:
Elizabeth Arden
Year:
1947
Item Number:
BH1375
like Paris in the Spring
Product:
Cosmetics
Company:
Coty, Inc.
Year:
1947
Item Number:
BH1651
Keep your best face forward
Product:
Bond Street Beauty Preparations
Company:
Yardley of London, Inc.
Year:
1942
Item Number:
BH1999
no headline
Product:
Dorothy Gray
Company:
Dorothy Gray
Year:
1941
Item Number:
BH1709
Emeraude the Jewel Fragrance
Product:
Emeraude Cosmetics
Company:
Coty, Inc.
Year:
1940
Item Number:
BH1633
night-blooming
Product:
Bond Street Cosmetics
Company:
Yardley of London, Inc.
Year:
1945
Item Number:
BH2055
Are you a Brunette?
Product:
Color-Spectograph
Company:
Helena Rubinstein
Year:
1945
Item Number:
BH1833
"An Eye for a Lass"
Product:
Yardley's English Lavender
Company:
Yardley of London, Inc.
Year:
1940
Item Number:
BH1988
a noble urge this quest for beauty
Product:
Beauty Balm and face powder
Company:
Germaine Monteil
Year:
1944
Item Number:
BH1808
Light-catching loveliness... "Color-light" with Yardley aids to beauty
Product:
Various
Company:
Yardley of London, Inc.
Year:
1946
Item Number:
BH2068
how to escape the dreaded phone call "I won't be home tonight!"
Product:
Beauty in the Morning Facial Cleanser
Company:
Universal Laboratories, Inc.
Year:
1948
Item Number:
BH1561
Love...laughter...
Product:
English Lavender Cosmetics
Company:
Yardley of London, Inc.
Year:
1942
Item Number:
BH2048
"I'm walking on air...when I wear Lavender!"
Product:
English Lavender Cosmetics
Company:
Yardley of London, Inc.
Year:
1944
Item Number:
BH2063
Think of Greece And you Think of Beauty
Product:
Various
Company:
Germaine Monteil
Year:
1944
Item Number:
BH1803
"My friends were startled by the change in me!"
Product:
DuBarry Success Course
Company:
Richard Hudnut
Year:
1940
Item Number:
BH1760
Mary Dunhill
Product:
Mary Dunhill Company
Company:
Mary Dunhill
Year:
1946
Item Number:
BH1522
Tonight! Help remove Your faded Unlovely "Top-Skin"
Product:
White Clay Pack
Company:
Edna Wallace Hopper
Year:
1943
Item Number:
BH1736
Rendezvous with Loveliness
Product:
Avon Cosmetics
Company:
Avon
Year:
1940
Item Number:
BH1386
There's Glamour in that modern natural look
Product:
Marvelous Face Powder
Company:
Richard Hudnut
Year:
1940
Item Number:
BH1761
how to bring your man straight home at night
Product:
Beauty in the Morning Facial Cleanser
Company:
Universal Laboratories, Inc.
Year:
1948
Item Number:
BH1562
For skin that's radiantly clean, vitally aglow, exquisitely soft
Product:
Dorothy Gray Cosmetics
Company:
Dorothy Gray
Year:
1941
Item Number:
BH1706
Lip-Lip Hooray for Cockade new Dorothy Gray Make-up
Product:
Cockade color makeup
Company:
Dorothy Gray
Year:
1940
Item Number:
BH1548
Prediction Protection by Germaine Monteil
Product:
Various
Company:
Germaine Monteil
Year:
1941
Item Number:
BH1797
"The Loveliest Girl"
Product:
Yardley's English Lavender
Company:
Yardley of London, Inc.
Year:
1940
Item Number:
BH1987
Parfums Bourjois
Product:
Bourjois Perfumes
Company:
Bourjois
Year:
1945
Item Number:
BH1595
"The Success School has taught me how to live for my Country!"
Product:
Du Barry Success School
Company:
Richard Hudnut
Year:
1941
Item Number:
BH1753
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