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 20 items.
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The Fountain Dry Goods Co.
- Description (Brief)
- Celluloid notebook. This shopping memo has a color image of a woman with a red ribbon in her hair. Inside the back cover is a store directory.
- The back cover reads: "Erasable Memorandum Compliments of THE FOUNTAIN DRY GOOD CO. COSHCOCTON, OHIO COMPLETE DEPARTMENT STORE COMPRISING Sixteen Distinct Departments, OCCUPYING 24,000 Square Feet of Floor Space."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1907
- advertiser
- Fountain Dry Goods Company
- maker
- Meek Company
- ID Number
- 2006.0098.0470
- accession number
- 2006.0098
- catalog number
- 2006.0098.0470
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Kemper-Thomas Co.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Kemper-Thomas Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_23213
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Continental Lithograph Corp.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Continental Lithograph Corp.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_11285
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Erie Railroad Co.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- Established 1851
- Company Name
- Erie Railroad Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_16095
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Long-Eakins Co.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- Established 1880 . Unable to determine relationship with W. Z. Long Co.
- Company Name
- Long-Eakins Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_27508
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Penton/IPC]
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- http://www.penton.com/ and http://www.answers.com/topic/penton-media-inc
- Company Name
- Penton/IPC
- Related companies
- Penton Media Inc.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_30253
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from McSavaney Corp.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- McSavaney Corp.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_30533
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Monarch Marking System Co.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Monarch Marking System Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_31957
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Chemical Data Center, Inc.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Chemical Data Center, Inc.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_10541
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Dayton Power & Light Co.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Dayton Power & Light Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_13357
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries