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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
  • Pennsylvania Railroad (15)
  • Union Pacific Railroad (15)
  • Milwaukee Road (11)
  • Pullman Company (10)
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• Product
  • Alton Railroad (1)
  • American Railroads (1)
  • Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1)
  • Burlington Lines (1)
  • centralized traffic control (1)
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (1)
  • Chicago and North Western System (2)
  • convenience and dependability of the trains (1)
  • Florida (1)
  • Free Book (1)
  • Freight Service (1)
  • Golden State Route (1)
  • Hiawatha (1)
  • Illinois Central Railroad (1)
  • job opportunities (1)
  • Lackawanna Railroad (1)
  • mail-carrying railroad (1)
  • Medical WAC (1)
  • Middle Route (7)
  • Missouri Pacific Lines (1)
  • New Haven Railroad (2)
  • Northern New England (1)
  • Oriental Trade (1)
  • Overland Route (1)
  • Package Tours (1)
  • Passenger Service (1)
  • Peace Train (1)
  • Pennsylvania Railroad (15)
  • penthouse railway car (1)
  • plant expansion (1)
  • Portland (1)
  • Pullman Company (12)
  • Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company (1)
  • Rail Passenger Service (1)
  • Railroad Cars (2)
  • railroad job (1)
  • Rock Island Lines (2)
  • Safety (2)
  • Santa Fe System Lines (6)
  • Seaboard Railroad (1)
  • Service (1)
  • Sleeper Car Service (1)
  • sleeping cars (1)
  • South Carolina (1)
  • Southern New England (1)
  • Southern Pacific (2)
  • Southern Railway System (3)
  • Sunset Route (1)
  • teamwork with producers (1)
  • Texas and Pacific Railway (1)
  • The Black Diamond (1)
  • The Convertible Coach-Lounge (1)
  • The Famous 400 (1)
  • The Milwaukee Road (6)
  • The Montrealer (1)
  • Three-Tier Sleeper Car (1)
  • transporting glass (1)
  • transporting lumber (1)
  • transporting paper (1)
  • Troop and Essential Transportation (1)
  • Troop Transportation (2)
  • Troop Travel (3)
  • Union Pacific Railroad (2)
  • Vacation Travel (1)
  • various (1)
  • Wabash Railroad (5)
  • War Transportation (1)
  • Washington Sleeping Car (1)
  • Western Pacific (1)
  • Western United States (2)
  • workers of B&O (1)
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• Subject
  • Illustration--Drawing (92)
  • Military (18)
  • Pennsylvania Railroad (15)
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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)