Barbara Stanwyck - Titanic (1953)
Chris Lowell, Bookstore Employee, Vancouver, 2006
Our latest In the Stacks post features a look at the Medicine and Madison Avenue digital exhibit at The Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University.
The exhibit gathers close to 600 advertising items and publications illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.
1. Nature is Stingy with tooth enamel, 1937. Woman’s Home Companion magazine.
2. Is “Smoker’s Fag” Beginning To Get You?, 1931. Saturday Evening Post
3. When Peter Pain hits with neuralgia pains…, 1946. Appeared in This Weeks newspaper
4. Women Look for cleanliness – even down the drains, 1932. Saturday Evening Post
5. Mothers Welcome New Heinz Strained Meats Babies enjoy their flavor! First In Glass Jars, 1954. Every Woman’s magazine
Dr. Giorgio Balbi (1943) bookplate. Artist: Luigi Bompard.
A woman reads with wide eyes and an open mouth as symbols of death approach her from the right. Many books surround the woman.
Domenico Petarlini: Dante Alighieri.
Dante Alighieri in exile, 1860, oil painting by Domenico Petarlini. Florence, Palazzo Pitti. Galleria D'Arte Moderna.
Chatsworth Library, by Christopher Simon Sykes.
The 11th Duke of Devonshire takes a nap in the Lower Library of Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.