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Freberg, Stan, 1926-
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1958-1991
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0444
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Stan Freberg (1926-2015) was a writer, performer, and satirist who pioneered the use of comedy in radio and television commercials during advertising's creative revolution in the 1960s. The collection includes examples of his work including his radio and television shows as well as some of his best known television commercials.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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1893-1992
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2.44 Cubic feet (consisting of 4.5 boxes, 1 folder, 5 oversize folders, 2 flat boxes (partial), 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Radios
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Pepsi-Cola Advertising Collection
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Pepsi-Cola USA (Purchase, N.Y.)
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1902-1982
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4.5 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0092
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists largely of print ads, signs, decals and other marketing and promotional materials. Virtually all of the print ads are for the U.S. audience. The period since World War II is more fully documented than the earlier period, although there are some advertisements from the 1930s and earlier. Most of the material documents Peps...
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Murphy, W.B.
Norris, Alice
Norris, E. E.
Prior, Joseph
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1904-2015
bulk 1904-1989
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12 Cubic feet (25 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0367
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is the result of a year-long study of Campbell's "Red and White" Soups advertising and marketing, supported in part by a grant from the Campbell Soup Company. Thirty-one oral history interviews were conducted by Dr. Barbara Griffith for the project, and a variety of related materials were gathered by the Center for Advertising History staff. The objective of the project was to create a collection that provides documentation, in print and media, of the history and development of advertising for Campbell's Red and White Soups in the decades following World War II.
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Luchs, Kenneth J.
Henry J. Kaufman and Associates (Washington, D.C.)
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1930-1980
bulk 1930s-1970s
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2 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0843
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials relating to Henry J. Kaufman, including photographs and ID cards; and the records of the Kaufman firm, including six scrapbooks, one for each decade; company newsletters, photographs, and other papers detailing the business history of the company as well as its social and other internal activities.
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Blum, Morris
WANN Radio Station (Annapolis, Maryland)
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1940-1999
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13 Cubic feet (32 boxes and 12 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0800
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the creative, technical and political aspects of managing WANN Radio Station in Annapolis, Maryland during the mid-Twentieth Century. Key areas of research include black radio stations; Annapolis African American communities; marketing to Black communities; political activism through media; Black-Jewish community relationships; church, community and media activism.
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Sunshine, Sara
Spanish Advertising and Marketing Service (creator)
Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies
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1962 - 2000
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3.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1343
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies Collection includes advertisements, research, and publications produced by SAMS (Spanish Advertising and Marketing Service), which was founded by Luis Diaz Albertini in 1963.
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Bunting, George L., Jr.
Brinkley, Christie
Ellsworth, Scott, Dr.
Colonel, Sheri
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1959-1990
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15.5 Cubic feet (30 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0374
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Cover Girl Make-Up Advertising Oral History and Documentation Project, 1923-1991, is the result of a year-long study in 1990, which examined the advertising created for Noxell Corporation's Cover Girl make-up products from 1959 to 1990. The objective of the project was to document, in print and electronic media, the history of Cover Girl make-up advertising since its inception in 1959.
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Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs
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1984-1994
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 96-074
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of audiotapes from the Office of Public Affairs (OPA), and include tapes of Smithsonian Institution (SI) radio commercials and tapes of news conferences, radio programs, and press briefings from the Office of the Secretary and the Smithsonian Board of Regents. The Smithsonian Institution radio commercials were produced b...
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Mooney, Philip F.
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ca. 1920's
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 vertical box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0284
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents photoprints of large road-side billboards advertising products and services ranging from radios to a health sanitarium to house paints.