Hartman Center for Sales, Adv & Marketing History

Documenting, preserving and promoting the history of advertising, sales and marketing in Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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Allow us to pay you to come to the Hartman Center @rubensteinlib to use our incredible advertising history collections in your research! This includes the recently acquired @ConsumerReports Archive. https://t.co/yS6ypcBblF

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.@ConsumerReports (and consumers) were not impressed with Mattel's first #Barbie Dreamhouse. They cited flimsy construction and the propensity of the house's elevator, its most exciting feature, to knock the cheap cardboard backdrops out of place.

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Take a #vacation to Hawaii with a young Tom Bueller, Ferris's father from Day Off fame, via Continental Airlines. Commercial from the '70s with voiceover by Casey Kasem. #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesVacay https://t.co/H1M7T5Q8pM

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Color Television on Fire! 🔥 Read about early color television's propensity to spontaneously ignite in living rooms and @ConsumerReports study of the issue. https://t.co/8d628MBZeG

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Happy #OpeningDay! To those who celebrate, here's a commercial featuring the great Ted Williams hawking Sugar Crisp for Post Cereals in the 1950s. https://t.co/UasnoopzFT

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Sixty years ago this month the #PanAm building opened for business. This ad promotes their rooftop helicopter service to JFK that "sets down within walking distance of their Pan Am Jet Clipper." Check out thousands more Pan Am ads here: https://t.co/aTkAQOaepz

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Several student sketchbook ad and poster mock-up designs from the 1960s by advertising creative, graphic designer, educator, and author, Archie Boston. #ArchivesBlackDesign #ArchivesHashtagParty https://t.co/WdT4vdGb9C

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@ImoveCar @jimvarneybook Absolutely encourage you to do so! Just email us at [email protected] and we'll be happy to help you plan your visit.

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We do indeed contain multitudes! License plate from our Jim Varney (aka, Ernest P. Worrell) Collection of Advertising.

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Are you a researcher interested in visiting to use our collections? Have you applied for a travel grant yet? Applications are due on April 30 https://t.co/Aubaa3A2Xg

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@katisjewell We have A LOT of digital collections content. Reach out to us [email protected] and we'd be happy to chat with you!
https://t.co/DhBrihU5AO

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Our #PanAm intern @leahtams is juuuust flying under the radar after her birthday yesterday! Thank goodness we can still trust her! 😁

Source: https://t.co/4AgYV8XvmQ

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Happy #NationalDogDay! In 1962 #PanAm provided quality transport for pets from Europe to the US. #ArchiveDogShow

Source: https://t.co/LsGPer0Oen

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Read more about the project and our contribution in a blog by our intrepid Grant Intern and now #PanAm history guru @leahtams. https://t.co/OvBubhi4xt

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To celebrate #NationalAviationDay we're thrilled to share @dpla's Aviation Portal! The culmination of a 3 yr @CLIRgrants with @HistoryMiami and @um_spec_coll to digitize and bring together #PanAm and other aviation related materials: https://t.co/kyvhKmT0EI Geek out!

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Probably not what #ArchivesHashtagParty had in mind for #ArchivesBugs but who could pass up Bugs Bunny. Humiliating Yosemite Sam and stealing his Sugar Crisp all in a 60 second spot. https://t.co/qbiODvlELP

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We have four internships open to graduate students in or recent graduates of Library Science, Public History, or other relevant programs.

Come to our Open House on April 7 to learn more about the positions, meet the supervisors, and ask questions: https://t.co/6Yq2K47ehB

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Gee-whiz #ArchivesHashtagParty fellas! A fire chief's hat with a built-in mic and speaker! #ArchivesTipOfTheHat https://t.co/s1P8DzmaGz

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@meau Need we say more?

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Incredible story of a 69-year career at a single advertising agency 🎉🍻! Story includes several wonderful photos from the @WunThompson archive housed here in the @rubensteinlib https://t.co/l6m5C8yQQi