Inventory of the John F. Hogan Papers, 1928-1992 and undated, bulk 1949-1972

Contains scrapbooks, compiled by Hogan in 1992, that include correspondence, clippings, printed material, photographs, and narratives written by Hogan. They are in roughly chronological order and follow Hogan's career in transportation advertising.

Contains contracts for the placement of transportation advertising in the northeastern United States, mostly New York and Connecticut. Some clippings and correspondence are attached to a few contracts. Photographs exist for some contracts. See cross-reference sheets for the location of photographs removed from contracts and placed in the Photographs Series. A few magazine advertisement proofs exist with contracts for California Prunes. In addition to the contracts executed by Hogan, the series also contains contracts executed by J.L. Tribble for Transit Advertisers Inc. prior to Hogan's employment with that company. Hogan used a variety of systems for the arrangement of contracts: chronological, location, and client/product category. Arranged alphabetically.

Series is divided into two subseries: Publications; and Other Printed Materials. The Publications Subseries includes reports, manuals, trade journals and serial publications relating to the transit advertising industry. The Other Printed Materials Subseries includes clippings relating to labor disputes and strikes in the transit industry between 1955 and 1975 (Hudson Tubes, the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co., and the Connecticut Company bus system). Also included are several car card advertisements for General Electric from the 1950s. Arranged alphabetically.

Large format items have been removed to Oversize Materials. A note so indicating has been inserted in the finding aid at the item's original location. Where an entire folder has been so removed, the folder title will appear in brackets to indicate its logical location within the finding aid.

Correspondence, printed material, clippings and contracts relating to transportation advertising by John H. Breck Inc. See Oversize Materials within the Printed Materials Series for car card advertisements. See Photographs Series for cross references.

Correspondence, printed materials, and clippings, related to transportation advertisements which featured electric clocks. Included is a booklet written for the manufacturer of the clocks which includes a personal history of John Hogan and a proposal for electric clock advertisements on the N.Y. City Subway System. See Photograph Series for cross references.

Photographs of transportation advertisements. Included are car card reproductions, which are undated black and white copies of car card advertisements arranged by product category. Also included are color photographs of exterior bus signs taken in Connecticut during the 1950s and 1960s. These are arranged in product categories and by location of sign on the bus. Negatives exist for these photos. A few black and white photographs exist featuring advertisements on the interior and exterior of buses and subways. Two sample booklets of bus signs compiled by Hogan include mostly color photographs, similar to the exterior bus sign photographs taken in Connecticut in the 1950s and 1960s. Also included in this series are photographs separated from other series. Cross reference sheets indicate the part of the collection from which the photos were removed.