We actually had a pencil advertising collection years ago, but decided it was not appropriate for us and transferred it to someone else.  I don't believe we're interested in replacing it, although I'll double-check with my colleagues to be sure.
 
David Haberstich
Archives Center
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution



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Duke University has a major advertising archive, they may be interested or know of someone that is.  The N.W. Ayer archive is at the Smithsonian and I know that they are (or were) actively collecting advertising memorabilia

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Kenneth MacLennan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear fellow MUSEUM-L members,

Is anyone out there familiar with an institution that might be interested in a large (upper 5 figures) collection of advertising pencils? The owner's nephew has asked me to help find a possible home that wouldn't break up the collection. I am familiar with the pencil museum in Kiswick, UK, but we're hoping to locate a domestic institution.

The pencils come from all over the US, advertising all sorts of businesses, and date from as far back as the early 20th century.

Any ideas?


Kenneth A MacLennan
Curator, Museum on Main
Pleasanton, CA

"Feelings are indispensable to man, but they become terrible the moment they see themselves as values, as criteria of truth, as justifications for behavior."
--Milan Kundera, Jacques and His Master (1981), Introduction (tr. Simon Callow, 1985)




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