FYI:  Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE, has significant
collections (advertising, design, public relations, trade catalogs) that
document the development of American consumer culture.  Records from
corporate advertising departments from the following companies are included:

American Iron & Steel Institute
DuPont Company
Pennsylvania Power & Light
Quaker Lace Company
RCA
Society for the Plastics Industry
Strawbridge & Clothier
Sun Oil,  and most recently,
Avon Products, Inc.

Please visit our library catalog at www.hagley.lib.de.us


At 07:16 PM 04/22/1999 EDT, you wrote:
>Companies themselves are often an excellent source of older advertising.
>Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Hercules, and DuPont, for example, all have
>examples of advertising for a variety of products and a variety of time
>periods.
>
>The best places to go within a company are the archives, if they exist. If
>not, communications departments should be able to help.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>-Tracy Sullivan
>
Jill MacKenzie
Head, External Affairs and Development
Hagley Museum and Library
Wilmington, Delaware