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Personalities and Products A Historical Perspective on Advertising in America
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Edd Applegate
Book Code: GM0364
ISBN: 0-313-30364-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30364-7
192 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 1/30/1998
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 5 1/2 X 8 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The book is a quick read and is clearly not intended to be a comprehensive history of advertising. Yet in its brevity it provides enough background material to make many of the people gain dimensional significance. In doing so, it presents important people interestingly in a way that is unassuming, straightforward, and occasionally charming....[F]or those interested in gaining a better sense of some of advertising's legendary characters and the times and challenges they faced, the book should be quite satisfying. Readers will find this book provides texture to the stories of some of the more famous and infamous people who have affected advertising in America....And it is certainly a worthy read for any professor of mass communications or marketing interested in the fascinating roots of today's advertising world.
    —Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Description: 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 style of Albert Lasker, owner of Lord and Thomas advertising agency, as well as Harley Procter's advertising of Ivory soap and Procter & Gamble's first 100 years. Elliot White Springs's use of sex in advertising and the Springs Cotton Mills advertising campaign of the 1940s and 1950s concludes the volume.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Advertising in Colonial America
  • The First Advertising Agents
  • How P. T. Barnum Helped Change the Course of Advertising
  • Advertising Patent Medicine: The Rise of Lydia Pinkham
  • John Wanamaker and His Influence on Retail Advertising
  • Albert Lasker and the Lord and Thomas Advertising Agency
  • Procter & Gamble and Advertising Cleanliness: The First 100 Years
  • The Springs Cotton Mills Advertising Campaign of the Late 1940s and Early 1950s
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 97-26893
LCC Class: HF5813
Dewey Class: 659
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