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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Guide to the López Negrete Communications Advertising Collection
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1413
- Creators:
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Lopez Negrete Communications (Houston, Texas)
- Dates:
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1988 - 2015
- Languages:
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Collection is inEnglish. The majority of the collection's content is inSpanish.
- Physical Description:
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14 Cubic feet
- Repository:
The López Negrete Communications Advertising Collection showcases the successful print advertising campaigns the communications agency undertook with major clients like Goya Foods, NationsBank, and Walmart. The advertising posters in this collection exemplify the agency's creativity in building on U.S. Latinos' everyday experiences to market American products and services. Alex and Cathy López Negrete, the founders of López Negrete Communications, made it their mission to use ethnographic approaches to better understand the U.S. Latino market which led to their success as the largest independently-owned Latino advertising agency in the country.
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
The collection is made up of López Negrete Communications' large posters created as part of the print advertising campaigns for major American corporations and oral history interviews with Javier Gonzalez Herba, Alex López Negrete, and Cathy López Negrete. Transcripts for oral history interviews with Javier Gonzalez Herba and Alex López Negrete are available.
López Negrete Communications' clients include Fiesta Mart, Goya Foods, NationsBank (and its successor, Bank of America), Tyson Foods, and Walmart. The content of the posters serves as an example of the advertising agency's efforts to better understand the U.S. Latino market by engaging with Latinos' everyday experiences through ethnography and direct communication.
Arrangement
Arrangement
The collection is divided into ten series.
Series 1: Background Materials, 2016
Series 2: Bank of America, 2000-2007
Series 3: Circle K, Totally Bueno, 2003
Series 4: Fiesta Mart, Inc., 2002-2003
Series 5: Goya Foods, Inc., 2003
Series 6: Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO), El camino a su destino/The Road to Your Destiny, 1988
Series 7: Microsoft, Nosotros vemos/We See, 2002
Series 8: NationsBank, 1994-1998
Series 9: Tyson Foods, 2001-2006
Series 10: Walmart, Inc. 1998-2015
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Originally named Third Coast Marketing, López Negrete Communications was founded in 1985 by Alex and Cathy López Negrete. The advertising agency has been based in Houston, Texas since the beginning but has additional offices in Los Angeles and New York. López Negrete Communications is currently the largest independently-owned Latino advertising agency in the United States. It is known for drawing on the everyday lives and experiences of US Latino consumers in order to work with major corporate clients to market their products through effective communication and empowerment.
Administration
Author
María Daniela Jiménez
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collection donated by López Negrete Communications, 2016.
Processing Information
Collection processed by María Daniela Jiménez, LMSP Fellow, Summer 2017, under the direct supervision of Alison Oswald.
Separated Materials
The Division of Work and Industry holds the following artifacts related to this collection:
Coin, Accession #: 2015.0305.01
Paperweight, Accession #: 2015.0305.02
Existence and Location of Copies
Collection contains born digital files of oral history interviews with Javier Gonzalez Herba, Alex López Negrete, and Cathy López Negrete. The interviews are available in the Smithsonian Institutions' Digital Asset Management System (DAMS). See repository for details.
Using the Collection
Preferred Citation
López Negrete Communications Advertising Collection, 1988-2015, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Conditions Governing Use
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Keywords
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
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