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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
- 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
- 1951 (170)
- 1952 (160)
- 1950 (136)
- 1949 (115)

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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.

IT&T Sponsors the Finest Gift for All the Family, Capehart Television with World-Famed Capehart Tone and Polatron Picture-Perfection	Life-Size Television	At Last... The Reflection-Proof TV Picture!	Home Run In Your Living Room-By Television!
Admiral Clearest Picture in Television	Caruso Sounds like CARUSO and MELCHIOR Sounds like Melchior	New Electronic Eye Adjusts Picture For Your Eye Comfort... Automatically	Inside a joy forever!
For Television For FM The Ward Magic Wand Aerial	Magnavox... a case of unmistakable identity	Quality: We have never sacrificed quality for price	Overpowers interference... overrides distance too!
Admiral TV. Built for the Future. With Color TV Optional. Equipped to Receive UHF.	You've never seen Anything Like it Before!	Join the Stars with Magnavox Big-Picture TV	The Picture tells the story
Don't Risk Inferior TV	Picture perfect and finest in every way	It's That "1950" Price You've Been Waiting For	Fred Allen Says: "DuMont Television is Right Up Allen's Alley."
Open before Christmas! here's why: there's so much going on in NBC BIG COLOR TV... every night!	World's First Home Television Developed By G.E. 25 Years Ago!	Television is here from Philco the Leader!	Science Makes it Better!
DuMont Television	Now Du Mont brings electronically engineered television to the moderate price field	It's You Set... But Our Reputation	World's Most Advanced TV and Record Playing
Sensationally Low Priced Motorola Television	Not Just Television... but Scott Television	Look Inside... Then Compare! See Why DuMonts Do More.	Don't Be Robbed of COLOR TELEVISION

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