Mortimer Spiller Company Records
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- Creators:
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Spiller, Mortimer
Spiller, Harley
Mortimer Spiller Company
- Dates:
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1954 - 1989
- Size:
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2.25 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1387
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the Spiller Company's work in developing print advertising and advertising novelties such as advertisements placed on balloons, blotters, clipboards, calendars, hats, etc. Many of the products they developed advertisements for were toys and novelties. The collection includes design drawings, a notebook, business records, co...
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Sunshine, Sara
Spanish Advertising and Marketing Service (creator)
Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies
- Dates:
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1962 - 2000
- Size:
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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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Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
- Dates:
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1949 - 1996
- Size:
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0.66 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1398
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes advertising materials for Crown Central's credit card and credit check programs, for gifts (cameras, kitchenware) offered by its service station to repeat customers; a set of posters and a design drawing for them, exhorting drivers to drive safely, featuring images of governors of states, President Dwight Eisenhower, FBI Dir...
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American Public Power Association
- Dates:
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1950 - 1982
- Size:
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0.6 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1337
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Persuasive printed materials offered by the Association to member utilities, to use as ads in local newspapers or as bill stuffers, on public interest subjects such as holiday safety, energy saving, the conveniences of electric appliances, and other topics; persuasive printed materials, mostly offered by investor-owned utilities, in opposition to p...
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Gottlieb, Rosalie F.
Luchton, Bernard, 1924-1970
- Dates:
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1949-1970
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0758
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of dvertising materials relating to Bernard Luchton's development of U.S. Savings Bond Stamps, including scrapbooks, posters, drawings, and photographs.
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Sanger, Carolyn
Wolpe, Eleanor
Wolpe, Allan
- Dates:
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1950-1990.
- Size:
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7 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0524
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Matchbooks collected with a national focus, from a variety of commercial establishments. Contain verbal and visual advertising.
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Jones, Caroline Robinson, 1942-2001 (advertising executive)
- Dates:
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1942 - 1996
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15 Sound tape reels
4 Motion picture films
54 Cubic feet (127 boxes; one oversize folder)
129 Video recordings
70 Cassette tapes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0552
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Caroline R. Jones (1942-2001), an African American advertising executive, worked for a number of prominent New York ad agencies and founded her own firm in 1986. She is best known for her work in assisting clients in marketing to minority consumers. The collection includes client files, print advertisements, and radio and television commercials created for a wide range of commercial and public service campaigns.
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McBain, Emmett
- Dates:
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1971 - 1976
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0192
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains examples of advertisements done by McBain for McDonald, Malboro, and a Chicago Arts Festival entitled "Black Folk Us." The nine posters in the collection date from 1971 to 1976.
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Freberg, Stan, 1926-
- Dates:
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1958-1991
- Size:
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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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Lopez Negrete Communications (Houston, Texas)
- Dates:
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1988 - 2015
- Size:
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14 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1413
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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.
