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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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• Company
  • W. Duke Sons & Co. (268)
  • Kinney Bros. (57)
  • [W. Duke Sons & Co.] (24)
  • Allen & Ginter (20)
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• Product
  • Duke's Cigarettes (122)
  • W. Duke Sons & Co. Cigarettes (87)
  • Kinney Bros. Cigarettes (28)
  • Sweet Caporal Cigarettes (26)
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• Subject
  • [American Tobacco Co.] (3)
  • [Cigarettes] (22)
  • [Sovereign Cigarettes] (3)
  • [W. Duke Sons & Co.] (24)
  • Allen & Ginter (20)
  • Allen & Ginter Cigarettes (17)
  • American Tobacco Co. (9)
  • British-American Tobacco Co. (2)
  • Butler Cigarettes (2)
  • Children (15)
  • Cigarettes (4)
  • Cigars (4)
  • Cork Tip Cigarettes (4)
  • Cross-Cut Cigarettes (13)
  • Culture--African/African-American (11)
  • Culture--African/African-American; European; Native American (2)
  • Culture--African/African-American; Middle East/Arab (3)
  • Culture--Asian (3)
  • Culture--Asian, European (2)
  • Culture--Asian, European, Latin American (2)
  • Culture--Asian, European, Middle East/Arab (4)
  • Culture--Asian, European, Middle East/Arab; Latin American (2)
  • Culture--Asian, European, Middle East/Arab; Native American (2)
  • Culture--Asian; European (2)
  • Culture--Asian; European; Middle East/Arab (3)
  • Culture--Asian; European; Middle East/Arab; Latin American (2)
  • Culture--European (23)
  • Culture--European; Middle East/Arab (2)
  • Culture--European; Middle East/Arab; Asia (India); Native American (2)
  • Culture--Middle East/Arab (3)
  • Culture--Native American (7)
  • Cut Plug Tobacco (5)
  • David Dunlop (5)
  • Duke's Cameo Cigarettes (13)
  • Duke's Cigarettes (122)
  • Duke's Mixture (3)
  • Goodwin & Co. (3)
  • Honest Long Cut (5)
  • Illustrator--A. Hoen & Co. (23)
  • Kimball & Co. (6)
  • Kinney Bros. (57)
  • Kinney Bros. Cigarettes (28)
  • Ligget & Myers (4)
  • Lorillard (5)
  • Maclin-Zimmer-McGill (5)
  • Mecca Cigarettes and Hassan Cigarettes (4)
  • Military (37)
  • Murad (9)
  • Murad Cigarettes (9)
  • Piedmont Cigarettes (4)
  • Preferred Stock (10)
  • Sports (56)
  • Strollers (4)
  • Sweet Caporal Cigarettes (26)
  • T. C. Williams (8)
  • Theme--Actors/Actresses (107)
  • Theme--Actors/Actresses; Nations (25)
  • Theme--Americana (5)
  • Theme--Americana; Leaders (4)
  • Theme--Americana; Packaging, Misc. (3)
  • Theme--Cigarettes, Misc. (7)
  • Theme--Cigars, Misc. (8)
  • Theme--Generals (23)
  • Theme--Goddesses (5)
  • Theme--Governors; Americana (28)
  • Theme--Humor (13)
  • Theme--Humor; Americana (6)
  • Theme--Leaders (7)
  • Theme--Leaders; Nations (3)
  • Theme--Musical Instruments (5)
  • Theme--Nations (61)
  • Theme--Nations; Leaders (13)
  • Theme--Nations; Nature; Sports (3)
  • Theme--Nations; Postage Stamps (10)
  • Theme--Nations; Technology (22)
  • Theme--Nature (14)
  • Theme--Nature; Americana; Sports (5)
  • Theme--Packaging, Misc. (31)
  • Theme--Poor Boys (8)
  • Theme--Shadows (7)
  • Theme--Sports (26)
  • Theme--Sports; Americana (13)
  • Theme--Sports; Nature; Americana (4)
  • Theme--Stationery (4)
  • Theme--Technology (8)
  • Theme--Tobacco, Misc. (22)
  • Tobacco (20)
  • Tobacco for Pipe and Cigarettes (4)
  • Tobacco Products Corp. (4)
  • Turkey Red Cigarettes (3)
  • Union Tobacco Co. of America (3)
  • unknown (12)
  • Unknown (10)
  • Unknown [Lorillard?] (7)
  • W. Duke Sons & Co. (268)
  • W. Duke Sons & Co. Cigarettes (87)
  • W. T. Blackwell (4)
  • Watson & McGill (9)
  • William S. Kimball & Co.'s Cigarettes (5)
  • Zira and Nebo Cigarettes (7)
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• Year
  • Undated (395)
  • 1888 (87)
  • 1889 (18)
  • [1880s] (7)
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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)