Advertising - Overview
Advertising is meant to persuade, and the themes and techniques of that persuasion reveal a part of the nation's history. The Museum has preserved advertising campaigns for several familiar companies, such as Marlboro, Alka-Seltzer, Federal Express, Cover Girl, and Nike. It also holds the records of the NW Ayer Advertising Agency and business papers from Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Carvel Ice Cream, and other companies. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana comprises thousands of trade cards, catalogs, labels, and other business papers and images dating back to the late 1700s.
Beyond advertising campaigns, the collections encompass thousands of examples of packaging, catalogs, and other literature from many crafts and trades, from engineering to hat making. The collections also contain an eclectic array of advertising objects, such as wooden cigar-store Indians, neon signs, and political campaign ads.
"Advertising - Overview" showing 5 items.
[Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts : picture postcard.]
- Notes
- Series 1, Box 7, U.S.A.--Louisiana--New Orleans--General
- Summary
- Illustration of the hotel courts: the buildings are shaped in the style of the Alamo in Texas. The postcard advertises the chain of hotels with locations in Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana
- Cite as
- Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1920
- 1920-1930
- collector
- Blenkle, Victor A. Dr (physician) 1900- 1978
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Panorama del Rosarito Beach Hotel [picture postcard]
- Notes
- Series II, Box 23, Foreign--Mexico-Miscellaneous scenes
- Summary
- Illustration of the Rosarito Beach Hotel on the beach facing the Pacific Ocean. An aerial view advertises the hotel, "the most unique resort in Old Mexico / 15 miles south of Tijuana."
- Cite as
- Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, ca. 1880s-1970s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. [Collection 200.]
- Date
- 1900
- 1920
- 1900-1920
- collector
- Blenkle, Victor A. Dr (physician) 1900- 1978
- Creator
- Impresora Editorial Baja California
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
La Posta Lodge, El Paso, Texas [postcard]
- Notes
- Series 1, Box 1, U.S.A.--Texas
- Summary
- Photo of the entrance to a motor lodge, built in a Southwestern adobe style, with an inset photograph of the motel interior, with throw rugs and wall decor in an Indian / Southwestern patterns. The postcard has an AAA (American Automobile Association) logo: "...on U.S. 80 West. 5 minutes to the center of city."
- Cite as
- Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, ca. 1880s-1970s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. [Collection 200.]
- Date
- 1900
- 1920
- 1900-1920
- collector
- Blenkle, Victor A. Dr (physician) 1900- 1978
- Creator
- AAA Associate Service, Pasadena, California
- Subject
- American Automobile Association
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Hotel Playa de Cortes, Guaymas, Sonora [picture postcard]
- Notes
- Series II, Box 23, Foreign--Mexico--Miscellaneous scenes
- Summary
- Black-and-white photograph(reproduction) of a hotel in Guaymas, Sonora. Postcard advertises the hotel and the Southern Pacific Railroad, as there is a railroad company seal on each lower corner of the postcard. The shot is of a swimming pool with some people lying around and a man standing at one end of the pool. The ratio of women to men in the postcard is 1 to 3
- Cite as
- Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, ca. 1880s-1970s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. [Collection 200.]
- Date
- 1900
- 1920
- 1900-1920
- collector
- Blenkle, Victor A. Dr (physician) 1900- 1978
- Subject
- Southern Pacific Railroad
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Hotel Rancho Telva, Taxco, Guerrero [picture postcard]
- Notes
- Series II, Box 23, Foreign--Mexico--Taxco
- Summary
- Reproduction of a black-and-white photograph of the arched entrance to a hotel in Taxco, Guerrero. There is a stone wall lining the driveway and a young boy walks next to the wall, into the photograph. Behind the arch are houses on a hill in the distance. Taxco is known for colonial Mexican architecture, silverwork and as an important rest point between Mexico City and Acapulco
- Cite as
- Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, ca. 1880s-1970s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. [Collection 200.]
- Date
- 1900
- 1920
- 1900-1920
- collector
- Blenkle, Victor A. Dr (physician) 1900- 1978
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
