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A database of over 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.
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- Broadsides (1840 - 1921)
- Nicole Di Bona Peterson Collection of Advertising Cookbooks (1878 - 1929)
- Advertising Ephemera (1853 - 1921)
- J. Walter Thompson Company "House Ads" (1889 - 1925)
- Ellis Collection of Kodakiana (1886 - 1923)
- Lever Brothers' Lux Soap (Flakes) (1916 - 1925)
- R. C. Maxwell Company (1909 - 1929)
- Pond's (1882 - 1925)
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- Tobacco Advertising (1872 - 1918)
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Broadsides (1840 - 1921) - 435 Items
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Broadsides advertised commercial products and services, and were printed for placement on walls, sides of buildings, fences, etc. Medical products, buggies, and raising money for the Washington Monument all have advertisements in this section.
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Broadsides (1840 - 1921) - 435 Items
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