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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)
- Early Advertising Publications (1870 - 1925)
- Scrapbooks
- Tobacco Advertising (1872 - 1918)
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This category consists of books and pamphlets created by advertising agencies to promote the concept and methods of the new advertising industry. The database incorporates among other information the names of companies whose advertisements are included in each book. The Title Page and Table of Contents or Index have been transcribed for each book, and are searchable.
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