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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
  • [Cigarettes] (22)
  • [Sovereign Cigarettes] (3)
  • 5 Cent Cigars (1)
  • Allen & Ginter Cigarettes (17)
  • Allen & Ginter Tobacco and Cigarettes (1)
  • Anti-Smoking pamphlet (1)
  • Blackwell's Durham Tobacco (1)
  • Blackwell's Genuine Durham Tobacco (1)
  • Butler Cigarettes (2)
  • Carolina Belle Scotch Snuff (1)
  • Castle Hall Twins Cigars (1)
  • Cheroots (1)
  • Chewing & Smoking Tobacco (1)
  • Cigarettes (4)
  • Cigars (4)
  • Cigars, cigarettes, tobacco (1)
  • Cork Tip Cigarettes (4)
  • Cross-Cut Cigarettes (13)
  • Cut Plug Tobacco (5)
  • Damask Rose Cigarettes (1)
  • Dandy Jim (1)
  • Dixie Cigarettes (2)
  • Duke's and Turkish Cross-Cut Cigarettes (1)
  • Duke's Best Cigarettes (1)
  • Duke's Cameo Cigarettes (13)
  • Duke's Cigarettes (122)
  • Duke's Honest Long Cut (2)
  • Duke's Mixture (3)
  • Duke of Durham Cigarettes (1)
  • Durham Smoking Tobacco (1)
  • Eglantine & Ivy (1)
  • Fatima Turkish Blend Cigarettes (1)
  • Genuine Bull Durham Tobacco (1)
  • Granulated Smoking Tobacco (1)
  • Gypsy Queen Cigarettes (2)
  • Helme's Railroad Snuff (1)
  • Herbert Tareyton Cigarettes (1)
  • High Class Cigarettes (2)
  • Homestead (1)
  • Honest Long Cut (5)
  • Honey Dew Tobacco (1)
  • Kangaroo Tobacco (1)
  • Kimball & Co.'s Cigarettes (1)
  • Kinney Bros. Cigarettes (28)
  • Leopard Tobacco (1)
  • Liipfert, Scales & Co. (1)
  • Little Katie Chewing Tobacco (1)
  • Lone Jack Cigarettes (1)
  • Long Cut Tobacco (1)
  • Lord Beaconsfield (1)
  • Lucy Hinton Tobacco (1)
  • Maclin-Zimmer-McGill Tobacco (1)
  • McRae Fine Tobacco (1)
  • Mild & Extra Fine Cigarettes (1)
  • Murad Cigarettes (9)
  • Nickel Movement Cigars (1)
  • Old Judge Cigarettes (1)
  • Old North State Cigarettes (1)
  • Orange Flower Cigar (1)
  • Penns Long Cut Smoking, Chewing tobacco (1)
  • Piedmont Cigarettes (4)
  • Pinehurst Cigarettes (1)
  • Pipe Smoking Tobacco (1)
  • Plug Cut Tobacco (2)
  • Poet Cigars (1)
  • Preferred Stock (10)
  • Pure Virginia Tobacco (1)
  • Rake (1)
  • Red Cross (2)
  • Red Funnel (1)
  • Royal Life Cigars, Author of Waverly, Royal Life, and Bonita Signora Cigars (1)
  • Sailor's Hope Tobacco (1)
  • School Boy Tobacco and National Chew (1)
  • Scrap (2)
  • Smoking & Chewing Long Cut Tobacco (1)
  • Smoking tobacco (1)
  • Smoking Tobacco (2)
  • Sovereign Cigarettes (1)
  • Sterling Stripped Mild Smoking Tobacco (1)
  • Storage (1)
  • Strollers (4)
  • Sweet Caporal Cigarettes (26)
  • Tiger Fine Cut (1)
  • Tobacco (20)
  • Tobacco for Pipe and Cigarettes (4)
  • Tobacco Stamp (1)
  • Tobacco Stamps (1)
  • Turkey Red Cigarettes (3)
  • unknown (12)
  • Various (1)
  • Various cigar brands (1)
  • W. Duke Sons & Co. (9)
  • W. Duke Sons & Co. Cigarettes (87)
  • William S. Kimball & Co.'s Cigarettes (5)
  • Zira and Nebo Cigarettes (7)
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• Subject
  • W. Duke Sons & Co. (268)
  • Duke's Cigarettes (122)
  • Theme--Actors/Actresses (107)
  • W. Duke Sons & Co. Cigarettes (87)
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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)