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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
So what are trade cards? Trade cards would have acted much as a modern business card would, though they were a bit more than that. Read this post to find out more.
Posted in: Advertising, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The quote “Advertising has a thousand principles, one purpose, and no morals” caught my eye and I had to know more about it, the man who wrote it, and how it fit into the history of advertising in America.
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is the fourth and final post in our series about the Dry Goods Economist, and focuses on store displays and selling of goods.
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
2020 Junior Fellow Sophie Lefebvre explores advertising in telephone books and offers some suggestions for exploring and understand advertising though telephone books.
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
July is National Ice Cream Month and for those interested in studying the history and the industry, the Library of Congress has resources that can help.
Posted in: Advertising, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
You may not see many of them now, but learn about Christmas Club accounts.
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I hope everyone has done their food shopping for their New Year’s Day feasts. In 1918, the Perth Amboy Evening News was doing its part to help shoppers by running this advertisement on December 27th for the Perth Amboy City Market (owned and operated by Morris M. Shumsky and William P. Shumsky). It was designed …
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was authored by Nanette Gibbs, Business Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. This is a teaser for a series of posts in 2018 to celebrate the New Orleans Tricentennial so stay tuned. Mention Mr. Bingle to just about anyone from New Orleans and they will probably smile and sing the …
Posted in: Advertising, Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
When I was writing the posts about the Capitol dome, I wrote one about the firm of Janes, Fowler, & Kirtland Co. and in the post I included an image of one of the stoves they manufactured. At the time, I was pretty confident that I wouldn’t be doing much more research on cast iron …
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Cookbooks and Food, Favorites From the Fifth Floor