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Emergence of Advertising in America

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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Categories

• 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)
• Early Advertising Publications (1870 - 1925)
• Scrapbooks
• Tobacco Advertising (1872 - 1918)