Advertising
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama Art League bulletins and exhibition announcements
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0019
Abstract
Contains 18 bulletins and exhibition announcements of this state-wide artists' organization
Dates:
1940 - 1943
Ben Zellers Grocery Account Book, circa 1900
File — Box 4267.002: [1005680108], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
This file contains a small cloth-bound account book belonging to Ben Zellers. The inside front and both back covers feature advertisements for Royal Baking Powder. According to the back cover, "The United States Government Report shows the Royal to be the purest and strongest baking powder in [sic] the market." Most of the book's pages are blank.
Dates:
circa 1900
Black Warrior Review posters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3460
Overview
Posters advertising issues of the Black Warrior Review
Dates:
1981-2000
Catalog collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0286
Overview
Six catalogs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three are clothing catalogs, one is a plant catalog, one is an automobile supply catalog, and one is a biography/silverware catalog.
Dates:
1883–1910s
Farm Security Administration Photographs
Collection — Box 1: [1006235609]
Identifier: 2009-093
Overview
The collection consists of eighty copy photographs. Originals were taken by the Farm Security Administration's photographers of Alabama agriculture and industry during the Depression. Primarily images of white and African American sharecropper families and homes, churches, schools, and farm scenes. Photographs were taken around Moundville, Eutaw, Selma, Scottsboro, Greensboro, and Birmingham, Alabama.
Originals are stored at the Library of Congress.
Dates:
1930 - 1942
Harco Drugs records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0626
Overview
Miscellaneous materials including newsletters, an employee handbook, memoranda, sales, publicity and marketing information, and other items.
Dates:
1974-1997
"I Love Tuscaloosa" bumper stickers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3721
Overview
Bumper stickers proclaiming
I [heart icon] Tuscaloosa
Dates:
after 1977
Miscellaneous documents, 1860-2007
File — Box WSC002: [1006241709], Folder: w0150.03
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous documents relating to the Civil War, but only indirectly. Included are an 1860 ad for General William Walker's book, The War in Nicaragua; a Masonic memorial card for Jere Clemens Dennis of Dadeville, Alabama; a 2007 ad for a rare salt print of General Thomas Carmichael Hindman, C.S.A.; photocopy of page 422 of volume XVIII (1910) of Confederate Veteran, article titled "Proof about Coffin for General...
Dates:
1860-2007
Mother's Day Advertisement, circa 1934
File — Box 4267.003: [1005680106], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
This file contains a card with an advertisement for the Fox Company of San Antonio, Texas. On the front is a picture of an elderly couple sitting together. The message on the other side urges readers to order film for a family photograph, and indicates that May 13 is Mother's Day.
Dates:
circa 1934
Josiah Clark Nott and George R. Gliddon book prospectus
Collection
Identifier: W-0137
Overview
Advertisement for Nott's and Gliddon's forthcoming book, Types of Mankind: or, ethnological researches, published in 1854.
Dates:
1854
Southern Business Guide - Illustrated advertisement, circa 1875
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.16
Scope and Contents
This single page from an undated issue of the Southern Business Guide - Illustrated highlights Columbus Female College in Columbus, Georgia, and the Beymer, Bauman, and Company
Dates:
circa 1875
Swans Down Cake Flour Advertisement, 1927
File — Box 4267.002: [1005680108], Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
This file contains one folded four-page advertisement for Swans Down Cake Flour sent out from the Educational Department of Igleheart Brothers, Inc. The ad includes a testimonial letter from a bride who says that Swans Down makes her cakes and pies turn out perfectly, and three pages of recipes for baked goods that can be made with the flour, including quick rusks, quick Sally Lunn, and apple cake, with illustrations of the treats.
Dates:
1927
Mrs. A. G. Tower Dressmaking Trade Card
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4027
Overview
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, dressmaker's trade card
Dates:
circa 1880
"Types One Meets in any Men's Restroom" handbill
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1854
Overview
Small handbill that gives humorous descriptions of the different types of men in a restroom.
Dates:
ca. 1950
W. S. Hoole Library Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3780
Overview
A variety of scrapbooks, several of which contain a variety of information on Tuscaloosa, Alabama and the University of Alabama.
Dates:
after 1800
J.D. Whittington dry goods advertisement
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3551
Overview
Dry goods advertisement
Dates:
between 1880-1900