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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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  • Clark's O. N. T. Spool Cotton (6)
  • Leverings Coffee (5)
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  • "Junior Bachelors." (Epping, Osborne, Patten, Hodges, Bacon, and Everett, managers) (1)
  • A. B. Seals (1)
  • A. C. Saunders & Co. (1)
  • A. V. Boatrite with Davis, Noble & Co. (1)
  • A. Velati (2)
  • Agnes M. Marsh (1)
  • Allen, McLean & Bulkley (1)
  • Allen & Ginter's Cigarettes (1)
  • Allen F. Owen (2)
  • Amalpor Goldberg (1)
  • Anna J. Stafslein (1)
  • Anniversary Ball (James Wooton, Proprietor) (1)
  • AOA (1)
  • Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A & P Baking Powder) (1)
  • Ayer & Ector (1)
  • Ayers Cherry Pectoral (1)
  • B. F. Popkins (1)
  • B. Jackson (1)
  • B. T. Babbit's Best 1776 Powder (2)
  • B. Y. P. U. Convention (1)
  • Bank of Columbus (1)
  • Bedell & Weems (1)
  • Belding's Silk Thread (1)
  • Bellamy & Martin (1)
  • Benjamin Count Rumford (1)
  • Best (1)
  • Brooks & Chapman (Druggists) (1)
  • Brown's Iron Bitters (2)
  • Buckingham's Dye (2)
  • C. Pierce's Printing Ink Works (1)
  • C. S. Harrison (1)
  • C. S. Harrison & Co. (Commission Merchants and Negro Brokers) (1)
  • C. Vinson (dentistry) (1)
  • Catlin's Meerschaum (1)
  • Celluloid collar and cuff (1)
  • Charles A. Durand (1)
  • Chas. F. Taggart (2)
  • Chas. T. White & Co. (2)
  • Chattahoochee Platform (1)
  • Chewacla Lime Works (1)
  • Children (53)
  • Church & Co. (Arm & Hammer) (1)
  • City Hotel (N. Backer, Proprietor) (1)
  • City Mills Company (1)
  • Claflin and Taylor (1)
  • Clark's O. N. T. Spool Cotton (6)
  • Clopton, Howard & Weems (1)
  • Columbus High School (1)
  • Columbus Ice House (1)
  • Concert Hall, Society Hill (1)
  • Cook's Hotel (1)
  • Cook's Hotel Barber Shop (1)
  • Cotillion Party (Thompson, Floyd, Roper, and Gammel managers) (1)
  • Cottage Hotel (F. M. Boynton) (1)
  • Culture--African/African-American (5)
  • Culture--Asian (2)
  • Culture--European (1)
  • Culture--Middle East/Arab (3)
  • D. B. Thompson & Co. (3)
  • Day Bros. & Co (2)
  • Dozier-Weyl Cracker Company (2)
  • Dr. and Mrs. Billing (2)
  • E. Barnard & Co. (2)
  • Ellis & Livingston (2)
  • Ellis & Mathis (2)
  • Grant Mills (2)
  • H. M. Sapp (2)
  • James Pyles Pearline (2)
  • Leverings Coffee (5)
  • Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound (2)
  • Maison Demorest (3)
  • Military (7)
  • Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Thomas (3)
  • Muscogee Railroad (3)
  • Omund Omundson (2)
  • Sports (8)
  • Sylvan Retreat (2)
  • Theme: Animals (13)
  • Theme: Business Cards (24)
  • Theme: Business Cards; Calling Cards (3)
  • Theme: Business Cards; Transportation-Tickets/Passes (2)
  • Theme: Calling Cards (7)
  • Theme: Calling Cards; Flowers/Plants (2)
  • Theme: Children (20)
  • Theme: Children; Animals (6)
  • Theme: Children; Flowers/Plants (3)
  • Theme: Children; Flowers/Plants; Fans (2)
  • Theme: Children; International/Costumes (3)
  • Theme: Flowers/Plants (9)
  • Theme: Food (4)
  • Theme: International/Costumes (2)
  • Theme: Invitation-Event (2)
  • Theme: Romance (2)
  • Theme: Transportation-Tickets/Passes (3)
  • Warner's Safe Yeast (2)
  • Watkins & Browning (2)
  • Watkins & Cobb (2)
  • White & Co. (2)
  • William Smith (2)
  • Wm. H. Crawford, druggist (2)
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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)