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- Advertising Brochure Selling Motion Pictures to Theater Managers, "Book the 4 and Pack 'Em In," Norman Studios, 1922 - In the early decades of the 20th century, a number of independent film companies emerged to provide black-oriented films for the African American market. One such company was Norman Studios in Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 1920, the studio provided films and stories featuring African American actors in non-stereotypical roles. This brochure highlights several of the company's more successful productions.
- 1922
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Advertising Brochure Selling Motion Pictures to Theater Managers, "Book the 4 and Pack 'Em In," Norman Studios, 1922
In the early decades of the 20th century, a number of independent film companies emerged to provide black-oriented films for the African American market. One such company was Norman Studios in Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 1920, the studio provided films and stories featuring African American actors in non-stereotypical roles. This brochure highlights several of the company's more successful productions.
- Fuzzbuster Radar Detector Ad, 1978 - This 1978 Fuzzbuster advertisement equates the warning light of the Fuzzbuster with a car's taillight. Both are signals alerting motorists to slow down. The device warned speeding drivers of police radar being used up ahead.
- 1978
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Fuzzbuster Radar Detector Ad, 1978
This 1978 Fuzzbuster advertisement equates the warning light of the Fuzzbuster with a car's taillight. Both are signals alerting motorists to slow down. The device warned speeding drivers of police radar being used up ahead.
- Advertisement for FMC Corporation Tomato Harvester, circa 1966 -
- circa 1966
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Advertisement for FMC Corporation Tomato Harvester, circa 1966
- Union Oil Service Station Inspection Team, "The Sparkle Corps," 1959 - Gas stations were one of the few places drivers could stop to use the restroom. But station bathrooms developed a reputation for being dirty. Starting in the 1930s, some oil companies dispatched restroom inspectors. This 1959 advertisement shows the Union Oil Company's Sparkle Corps ready to check for cleanliness and safety.
- 1959
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Union Oil Service Station Inspection Team, "The Sparkle Corps," 1959
Gas stations were one of the few places drivers could stop to use the restroom. But station bathrooms developed a reputation for being dirty. Starting in the 1930s, some oil companies dispatched restroom inspectors. This 1959 advertisement shows the Union Oil Company's Sparkle Corps ready to check for cleanliness and safety.
- Advertisement for Best's Apparel, "Fashion Specialists for Young Women of All Ages/Best's Apparel/Seattle," 1945 -
- 1945
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Advertisement for Best's Apparel, "Fashion Specialists for Young Women of All Ages/Best's Apparel/Seattle," 1945
- Advertisement for "Blums Vogue Chicago," 1957 -
- 1957
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Advertisement for "Blums Vogue Chicago," 1957
- Brochure Advertising the Xacto Sentry Pump Outfit with Type "C" Tank and Fittings, 1929 - S.F. Bowser & Company's Xacto Sentry gas pump brought a new level of accuracy to fuel measurement when it debuted in 1928. The pump's positive displacement meter measured gas by pumping it against a series of pistons that, in turn, moved the clock face gauge. The gauge only measured the quantity of fuel pumped. The attendant calculated the total sale price.
- 1929
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Brochure Advertising the Xacto Sentry Pump Outfit with Type "C" Tank and Fittings, 1929
S.F. Bowser & Company's Xacto Sentry gas pump brought a new level of accuracy to fuel measurement when it debuted in 1928. The pump's positive displacement meter measured gas by pumping it against a series of pistons that, in turn, moved the clock face gauge. The gauge only measured the quantity of fuel pumped. The attendant calculated the total sale price.
- Trade Card for Wheeler & Wilson's New High-Arm Family Sewing Machine, the "No. 9," circa 1890 - As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises products available from Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company.
- circa 1890
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Trade Card for Wheeler & Wilson's New High-Arm Family Sewing Machine, the "No. 9," circa 1890
As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises products available from Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company.
- Crate Label, "J.K. Brand Zinfandel Grapes," circa 1940 - In 1869, the transcontinental railroad opened eastern markets to the West Coast produce industry for the first time. As produce companies shipped crates of fruits and vegetables across the country, they needed a way to distinguish their goods from their competitors'. Colorful, eye-catching labels, like this one for J.K. Brand Zinfandel Grapes, were created to attract grocers purchasing goods from wholesale markets.
- circa 1940
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Crate Label, "J.K. Brand Zinfandel Grapes," circa 1940
In 1869, the transcontinental railroad opened eastern markets to the West Coast produce industry for the first time. As produce companies shipped crates of fruits and vegetables across the country, they needed a way to distinguish their goods from their competitors'. Colorful, eye-catching labels, like this one for J.K. Brand Zinfandel Grapes, were created to attract grocers purchasing goods from wholesale markets.
- Life Magazine, Bound Volume, October-December 1967 -
- October 1967 - December 1967
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Life Magazine, Bound Volume, October-December 1967