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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
- Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc. (121)
- Magnavox Company (99)
- General Electric Company (68)
- Admiral Corporation (64)

Product
- Television (292)
- various (73)
- Various (43)
- Radio Phonograph Television (30)

Subject
- Illustration--Drawing (327)
- Television (292)
- Television--DuMont (130)
- Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc. (121)

Year
- 1939 (3)
- 1943 (3)
- 1944 (24)
- 1945 (25)
- 1946 (10)
- 1947 (51)
- 1948 (72)
- 1949 (115)
- 194x (1)
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- 1950 (136)
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- 1952 (160)
- 1953 (80)
- 1954 (2)
- 1956 (11)
- 1957 (1)

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Beauty and Hygiene (1911 - 1956)
Radio (1922 - 1956)
Television (1939 - 1957)
- 1939-1947
- 1948
- 1949
- 1950
- 1951
- 1952
- 1953-1957
Transportation (1938 - 1957)
World War II (1942 - 1945)

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Advertisements featuring television sets, as well as a few other miscellaneous electronics, are included in this category. An interesting feature of many of these ads is their promotion of individual television programs.

$100,000 prize contest to introduce sensational '54 Westinghouse Automatic TV	Magnavox High Fidelity	He's Right--For Sound and Sight A Raytheon Bonded Dealer Guarantees Radio and TV Repairs	Even the Adirondacks no barrier to G-E Black-Daylite Television
You Get The Picture As the Producer Sees It... When your television receiver is equipped with the Mallory Inductuner	"Never Before has Man Offered SO MUCH for SO LITTLE as from a TELEVISION SET"	Only Raytheon TV Guarantees All-Channel VU-Matic tuning	GE Daylight Television, Recommended by eye specialists!
Motorola 19 inch TV	The Secret of TV's Brightest Picture Tube	Double Opening Sale	Polaroid Television Filter: Now Available by Mail at Sensationally Reduced Prices 33 to 49% Off
Love is wonderful we agree... but "there is nothing finer than a Stromberg-Carlson" in TV	Kinder to Your Eyes	Better See Motorola TV	New from Philco... Sensational Golden Grid Tuner
Du Mont Here Is Why It's Your Best Buy!	He plays a Stradivarius	Your New "Studio One"	New Series "G" Daylight Television With Automatic Sound - Recommended by eye specialists
Magnavox the magnificent gift for all the family	It's new! It's exciting! It's first at Dynamic!	Beautiful picture, high-fidelity tone	Modern Magic by Magnavox
It's New! It's Revolutionary! Projection Television	Conversation Piece	What in the wide, wide world are you waiting for?	Do your Christmas Shopping on this page
The finest in sight and sound!	Never forget... there can be only one original!	Prince Ali's magic tube comes true!	"Emerson is your Best Buy!"

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