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Personalities and Products: A Historical Perspective on Advertising in America
Edd C. Applegate
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Hardback. This work examines the contributions of such luminaries as P.T. Burnam, John Wanamaker, Harley Proctor and Elliot White Springs to advertizing in America. It opens with a discussion of colonial advertizing and the printers such as Benjamin Franklin who invented it. Series: Contributions to the Study of Mass Media & Communications. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFD; KJSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 11. Weight in Grams: 380.
Profiling such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, P. T. Barnum, John Wanamaker, and Harley Procter, this book examines the contributions that several prominent individuals have made to advertising in America. The work opens with a discussion of Colonial advertising and the printers, such as Benjamin Franklin, who created it. It then goes on to consider early advertising agents such as Francis Wayland Ayer and the contributions of the great promoter P. T. Barnum. Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and the advertising of patent medicines is also covered, as is John Wanamaker's impact on retail advertising. The book then examines the advertising ... Read more
Profiling such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, P. T. Barnum, John Wanamaker, and Harley Procter, this book examines the contributions that several prominent individuals have made to advertising in America. The work opens with a discussion of Colonial advertising and the printers, such as Benjamin Franklin, who created it. It then goes on to consider early advertising agents such as Francis Wayland Ayer and the contributions of the great promoter P. T. Barnum. Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and the advertising of patent medicines is also covered, as is John Wanamaker's impact on retail advertising. The book then examines the advertising ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Contributions to the Study of Mass Media & Communications
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313303647
SKU
V9780313303647
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About Edd C. Applegate
EDD APPLEGATE is Professor in the School of Journalism at Middle Tennessee State University. His earlier books include The Ad Men and Women: A Biographical Dictionary of Advertising (Greenwood, 1994), Print and Broadcast Journalism (Praeger, 1996), Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors (Greenwood, 1996), and Journalistic Advocates and Muckrakers: Three Centuries of Crusading Writers (1997).
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