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Todd M. Brennan Collection, 1970s
- Summary
- Comprehensive collection of fan material from the television series "Charlie's Angels"; represents aspects of fan clubs in 20th Century popular culture: seven scrapbooks of the TV series, ten posters of the stars, and four magazines on the tv series
- Cite as
- Todd M. Brennan Collection, 1970s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1970
- 1979
- 1970s
- 1970-1980
- 20th century
- 1960-1980
- 1970-1990
- collector
- Brennan, Todd M
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Marlboro Oral History and Documentation Project, ca. 1940-1986
- Notes
- Philip Morris, Inc. was originally a British company dating from 1847. Incorporated in U.S. 1919; overseas division established 1955. Diversified by acquiring paper, beer, soft drink, and packaged goods companies; became largest U.S. tobacco company. Marlboro cigarettes introduced 1924, "reintroduced" 1954. "Marlboro Country" is a landmark advertising campaign in which western American imagery became the motif for Marlboro cigarettes. By 1963, the "Marlboro Country" campaign had become the exclusive imagery for advertising the cigarette
- Dr. Scott Ellsworth, oral historian, conducted interviews, 1985-1987, with 60 persons associated with Marlboro advertising and marketing. 27 interviews were conducted overseas, in Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and West Germany
- Summary
- Documents the development of Marlboro cigarette advertising, 1954-1986, through oral history interviews and related print and electronic media. Print ads, posters, and commercials complement the interviews by providing visual records. Additional information in Research, Interviewee, and Administrative files to place individuals and advertisements into historic context
- Interviewees (listed below) include Philip Morris executives, advertising agency personnel, photographers, production staff, sales and marketing personnel, and cowboys who modelled for print ads and television commercials
- Series 4: includes (A) proof sheets from the Marlboro Country campaign, 1981-1986; (B) Marlboro posters in English, Spanish, and German, 1984-1985; (C) 35mm color slides of Marlboro print advertisements (2 sets), 1927-1986; (D) Marlboro television commercials, 1955-1986 (master and researcher videotapes); (E) Marlboro radio commercials, 1956-1957 and 1986
- Cite as
- Marlboro Oral History and Documentation Project, 1954-1986, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1940
- 1986
- ca 1940-1986
- 20th century
- 1940-1990
- 20th Century
- 1980-1990
- 1960-1990
- 1950-2000
- donor
- Philip Morris, Inc
- interviewee
- Nunez, Raul
- Marx, Dick
- Arguelles, Rafael
- Adams, Hall
- Zinn, Manfredo
- Fockler, Knut
- Landry, Jack
- Kwan, William
- Gil, Felipe
- Kwong, Goddard
- interviewer
- Ellsworth, Scott Dr
- interviewee
- Jarrard, Tom
- Winfield, Darrel
- advertising agency
- Leo Burnett, Inc
- Local number
- 1989.3098 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Donald H. Sultner-Welles Collection : audiotapes, manuscripts, photographs, prints, 1945-1980 (bulk), ca. 1790-1981 (incl.)
- Notes
- Donald Harvey Sultner, from York, Pa., graduated from the Wharton School in 1936. Originally pursuing a singing career on the East Coast, in 1952, he began giving illustrated talks to small gatherings. In 1954 as a German government guest he gave slide-lectures on America; in 1959 he was a USIS-sponsored lecturer in Asia. Returning to America, Sultner performed "photo-concerts" around the country, later worked for Holland-America Cruises. He performed at Chautauqua, the Williamsburg Antiques Garden Forums, Ladew Topiary Gardens, etc.; and the Baltimore Symphony commissioned "Concertino for Camera and Orchestra," dedicated to and premiered by Sultner with the Symphony in March 1979
- Summary
- Personal and business records and photographs of the lecturer-photographer Donald Sultner-Welles. The photographic record documents Sultner's world travels and forms the imagery on which his "photo-concerts" were based. Includes audio tapes of his concerts, impressions of his trips, and interviews with friends at home and abroad (an unusual tape-recorded interview with Erna Hanfstaengl includes her recollections of her personal relationship with Adolf Hitler)
- Includes Sultner's passport
- 2011 addendum: four cubic feet of Sultner-Welles' correspondence, ca. 1957-1980
- Cite as
- Donald H. Sultner-Welles Collection, ca. 1790-1981, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1790
- ca 1790-1981 incl
- 1945-1980 bulk
- 1950-2000
- 1300-1980
- 20th century
- 1940-1980
- 1930-1950
- donor
- Sultner-Welles, Donald H (Sultner, Donald Harvey) 1914-1981
- Eyster, Steve
- photographic printer
- Janus, Allan Cibachrome prints from Sultner-Welles transparencies, Series 12
- interviewee
- Hanfstaengl, Erna
- Subject
- Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945
- Holland-America Cruises
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- Chautauqua Institute
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Local number
- 1986.3107 (NMAH Acc.)
- Pending (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Zippo Lighter Advertising Collection, 1937; 1961-1971
- Summary
- Advertising brochures, posters, and articles on the company
- Cite as
- Zippo Lighter Advertising Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1937
- 1937-1971
- 1937 1961-1971
- 1930-1980
- 20th century
- donor
- Jones, William (Vice President, Zippo Lighter)
- author
- Zippo Manufacturing Company
- collector
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Local number
- NMAH Acc. 1984.3033
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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S. Prakash Sethi Advocacy Advertising Collection, 1970s-early 1980s
- Notes
- Dr. Sethi has done extensive research on self-promotional advertisements by corporations. The slides are of advertisements by large companies like Mobil Oil and Bethlehem Steel
- Summary
- 8 posters, 98 color slides, and 271 black and white slides on advocacy advertising for the 1970s and early 1980s
- Cite as
- S. Prakash Sethi Advocacy Advertising Collection, ca. 1970-1990, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1970
- 1990
- 1970s-early 1980s
- 1970-1990
- donor
- Sethi, S. Prakesh (director)
- Subject
- Center for the Study of Business and Government
- Local number
- 1985.3148 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Emmett McBain Afro-American Advertising Poster Collection, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976
- Notes
- McBain has been an art supervisor for J. W. Thompson in Detroit, a creative consultant for Soft Sheen Products, and co-founder of Burrell McBain Advertising in Chicago. He donated these illustrations as examples of his creative work in 1985
- Summary
- Examples of advertisements by McBain for McDonald's, Marlboro, and a Chicago arts festival, "Black Folk Us"
- Cite as
- Emmett McBain Afro-American Advertising Poster Collection, 1973-1976, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1973
- 1973-1976
- 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976
- 1970-1980
- 1960-1980
- 1950-2000
- creator
- McBain, Emmett
- Subject
- McDonald's Corporation
- Burrell McBain Advertising (Chicago, Ill.)
- Local number
- 1986.3012 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Helen May Butler Collection, 1899-1937 (bulk ca. 1902)
- Notes
- Helen May Butler, woman bandmaster, directed an all-women traveling military band, 1898-1913. "Music for the American people, by American composers, played by American girls" was one of the band's mottoes. Born in New Hampshire in 1873, she pursued a variety of musical studies and became an accomplished performer in both violin and cornet. She announced candidacy for a U.S. Senate seat in 1936
- Summary
- The materials cover the career of a woman bandmaster with an all ladies' traveling military band, 1898-1913 , with the bulk of the material ca. 1902. Includes clippings, photographs, programs, posters, postcards, advertising fliers, letters, telegrams, biographical article announcing candidacy for U.S. Senate seat, and "The Flood of 1937" section of the Cincinnati Post, February 13, 1937
- Cite as
- Helen May Butler Collection, 1899-1937, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1899
- 1899-1937
- bulk ca 1902
- 1930-1940
- 1890-1920
- 1900-1950
- 1880-1900
- 1930-1950
- donor
- Young, Helen May Butler
- collector
- Musical Instruments, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Subject
- Butler, Helen May 1873-19??
- Helen May Butler's Ladies Military Band
- United States. Senate
- Local number
- 242392 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Hazen Collection of Band Photographs and Ephemera, ca. 1818-1931
- Notes
- Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hazen formed this collection in conjunction with their research on the American brass band movement
- Summary
- Large collection of photographs, picture postcards, printed ephemera, and music related to the brass band movement in the United States: includes 8 ambrotypes, 36 tintypes, 59 stereographs, 66 cabinet prints, 90 cartes-de-visite, 150 large photoprints, and 874 picture postcards; also posters, concert programs, instrument manufacturers' advertisemements and ephemera, periodicals, sheet music, etc
- Cite as
- Hazen Collection of Band Photographs and Ephemera, ca. 1818-1931, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1818
- 1818-1931
- ca 1818-1931
- 1900-1950
- 1830-1880
- 1850-1900
- 1890-1900
- 19th century
- collector
- Hazen, Robert M
- Hazen, Margaret Hindle
- Local number
- 1988.3028 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1988.3029 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1988.3030 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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The Federal Express Advertising History Collection, 1972-1988
- Notes
- In 1971, Fred Smith of Memphis created the Federal Express Corporation, an overnight air freight delivery system. A fleet of airplanes would fly packages from across the nation each evening to a center in Memphis, where the packages would be unloaded, sorted, and re-loaded onto other planes for travel to the final destination. In 1981, the corporation achieved a revenue of one billion dollars
- The core of the collection is a series of interviews conducted 1987-1988 by Dr. Scott Ellsworth. 25 persons associated with Federal Express advertising were interviewed, producing approx. 32 hours of taped materials. Interviews conducted primarily in Memphis, New York, Chicago, and on location at the filming of a commercial in Hollywood
- Summary
- Includes interviews with persons involved in Federal Express advertising, related documents, advertisements for paper and electronic media (especially television commercials), storyboards, clippings, posters, etc. Topics addressed in taped interviews are the use of research data, the position of advertising in overall marketing strategy, and the nature of the creative process in producing effective advertising images in various media
- Interviews include Federal Express executives and marketing staff, graphic artists, advertising copywriters, and other personnel from the Ally & Gargano and Fallon McElligott advertising agencies; also filmmaker Joseph Sedelmaier and actor John Moschitta, Jr. ("the fast-talking man")
- Cite as
- The Federal Express Advertising History Collection, 1972-1988, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1972
- 1972-1988
- 1970-1990
- collector
- Archives Center, NMAH, SI
- interviewee
- Williams, Carl
- Smith, Fred
- Altenburg, Nancy
- Sedelmaier, Joe filmmaker
- Kelly, Patrick
- Ally, Carl
- Presley, Carol
- Gargano, Amil
- Moschitta, John actor
- Miller, William B
- Tesch, Mike
- Burnham, Patrick
- Frazier, Sharon
- Oliver, Tom
- interviewer
- Ellsworth, Scott Dr
- creator
- Federal Express Corporation
- advertising agency
- Ally & Gargano, Inc.
- creator
- Fallon McElligott Advertising Agency
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Japanese American Documentary Collection, 1900s-1982
- Notes
- Documents relate to the involuntary relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II. Much of the collection was collected by the Division of Armed Forces History for the exhibit "A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution" at NMAH
- Summary
- Souvenirs and memorabilia from World War II, including Christmas cards, notes to friends, camp newsletters, Japanese passports, meal passes, a typescript of a taped interview with Mrs. Kamikawa, Feb. 1982; a panoramic photograph of Manzanar; ration books; photographic albums; etc. Names listed below indicate persons represented in collection
- 2005 addendum : Printed materials from relocations camps, such as newsletters, newspapers, a yearbook, and a comic book
- Additional 2005 addendum : Photograph of a high school class in Amache, California
- 2006 addendum : Book, "Minidoka Interlude", published by residents of the Minidoka Relocation Camp in Hunt, Idaho
- 2010 addendum : One-third cubic foot of newsletters printed in an internment camp in Arkansas, 1940s
- Cite as
- Japanese American Documentary Collection, 1900s-1982, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1900
- 1900-1982
- 1900s-1982
- 1942-1945
- 1940-1950
- 1940-1960
- 1900-1950
- 20th century
- collector
- Armed Forces History, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- donor
- Tsukamoto, Mary
- Nitta, Eugene T
- McGovern, Melvin
- Tanaka, Peter Dr
- Ishimoto, Norman
- Subject
- Emi, Frank
- Hashimoto, M
- Kamikawa, Kazu Mrs
- Kamikawa, Juichi
- Kawashiri
- Kihari, Shigeya
- Matsumoto
- Miyake, Takashi
- Oliver, Floyd A
- Ozamoto, T
- Vogel, Mabel Rose
- Wakabayashi, Ron
- Japanese Americans Citizens League
- Local number
- 1986.3118 (NMAH Acc.: Tsukamoto)
- 1986.3132 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1986.3057 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1987.3010 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1987.3020 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1986.3139 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1986.3166 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1986.3163 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2005.3044 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2005.3045 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2006.3077 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2010.3038 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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