Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920: Ellis Collection of Kodakiana (1886

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John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
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The advertisements included in EAA include some of the earliest Kodak print ads. The first year for the Kodak camera was 1888. George Eastman's Kodak camera represented a major breakthrough, as photography in the late 19th century was a cumbersome and complicated process requiring glass plates, chemicals, and bulky equipment.

There's Cheer in the Pictures from Home	The No. 1 Autographic Kodak, Junior	The Kodak in Camp	At Home with The Kodak
The story of a Summer vacation as Told by the Kodak	"Oh For A Camera"-Premo	There's a world of delight in Kodak	What the 2A Brownies do
For Christmas--your photograph.	One Button Does it.	Keep the Portraits of your Heroes	The Kodak Way Dark-Room Abolished
Your Vacation Film	Scout with a Kodak	The news pictures of all the world are made on Kodak Film	All out-doors invites your Kodak
Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak	Snap-Shots from Home	The Cartridge Kodaks	Take a Kodak with you
The New 4A Folding Kodak	Let your Kodak keep the Christmas Story	A Kodak Self-Portrait	Eastman Kodak Co.'s Brownie Camera $1
Honest workmanship has become a habit in the Kodak factories.	There's a photographer in your town	All out-doors invites your Kodak	Kodak as you go
Photographic Outfits "Daylight" Kodaks.	When You Come Back	There's a photographer in your town	Captain Donald Thompson, the man who took the Czecho-Slovak pictures in this issue, wrote:

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