Author:

Unknown  Search this

Subject:

Hindle, Brooke  Search this

National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)  Search this

National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)  Search this

Physical description:

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print

Type:

Photographic print

Date:

1975

Category:

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes:

Featured in TORCH, May 1975

Summary:

Presentation of a seventy-five year collection of advertising by the New York firm of NW Ayer ABH International: (l-r) Neal W. O'Connor, company chairman; Brooke Hindle, Director of the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History; Robert Bach, of the firm, and Dr. John N. Hoffman, curator of NMHT's Collection of Business Americana. Dr. Hindle called the advertising collection "a valuable historic record of changes in American consumption and lifestyles."

Contained within:

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder May 1975

Contact information:

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Topic:

Hoffman, John N  Search this

Collection of Business Americana  Search this

O'Connor, Neal W  Search this

Bach, Robert  Search this

NW Ayer ABH International  Search this

Advertising  Search this

Gifts  Search this

Museum directors  Search this

Museum curators  Search this

Event  Search this

Standard number:

94-13191

Restrictions & Rights:

No restrictions

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_8414