Dates: 1514-2010
Document Types: Printed Books; Manuscript Book; Company Records; Periodicals; Advertisements; Marketing Reports; Ephemera; Film; Oral Histories
Description: Digital access to primary source material covering the evolution of food and drink within everyday life and the public sphere. Includes printed and manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government reports, films, and illustrated content.
Includes access to Modules 1 and 2. The bulk of the material ranges from the sixteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Module 2 includes six rare Apicius cookbooks, the earliest of which dates from the ninth century.
Dates: 1600s-2010
Document Types: Advertisements; Catalogues; Business documents; Correspondence; Diaries; Ephemera; Manuscripts; Mercantile Papers; Prices Current; Private Papers
Description: Provides a range of visual, manuscript and printed materials sourced from over twenty key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organisations around the world.
Includes business accounts, mercantile papers and correspondence, government reports, rare pamphlets and dock records, and material from specialist collections such as the George Arent’s Tobacco Collection at the New York Public Library, the Braga Brothers Collection from the University of Florida, and the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives. Explores fifteen commodities: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea,timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.
Dates: 1900-2000
Document Types: Advertisements; Business and Financial Documents; Briefs and scripts; Correspondence; Packaging; Presentations and speeches; Research and Data
Description: Documents the history, operation, policies and accomplishments of one of the world's largest and oldest advertising firms, the J. Walter Thompson Company. Covers aspects of twentieth-century cultural, social, business, marketing, consumer and economic history.
Includes documents from the late nineteenth century up until the late 1990s with the bulk representing the post-1945 world. The collections included are the Publications, Account Files for nine key clients, Staff Newsletters, Staff Writings & Speeches, Chicago Office Research, New York Office Research, New Business Records, Information Center Records, Corporation Vertical Files, Review Board Records, Staff Meeting Minutes and a selection of Print Advertisements. A number of brands, companies, and industries are covered from automobiles to cosmetics and cruises. It includes complete files on some of J. Walter Thompson’s key accounts.
Dates: 1768-1900
Document Types: Advertisements; Correspondence; Diaries; Draft; Financial Records; Illustrations; Company Records; Manuscript
Description: Primary source documents from the archive of the historic John Murray literary publishing company. Materials span the entirety of the long nineteenth century and document the golden era of the House of Murray from its inception in 1768.
Records in this resource predominantly focus on the tenure of John Murray II and his son, John Murray III, as they rose to prominence in the publishing trade, launching long-running series including the political periodical Quarterly Review, and publishing genre-defining titles such as Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Austen’s Emma and Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Dates: 1950-1975
Document Types: Advertisement; Catalogue; Correspondence; Ephemera; Newspapers and Magazines; Memorabilia; Photographs; Printed Books
Description: Contains original archival materials about popular culture in the U.S. and U.K. from 1950-1975
Dates: 1800-1900
Document Types: Admission Cards; Advertisement; Anatomy Guides; Broadsides; Ephemera; Printed Books; Posters; Street Guides
Description: Popular Medicine in America documents the history of ‘popular’ remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America, through primary source materials drawn from the extensive collections at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The material covers popular trends such as phrenology, herbal medicine and hydrotherapy, and documents the rise of widespread advertising by commercial manufacturers of medical aids. Materials have an emphasis on ephemera and advertising, aimed at the ordinary man in the street rather than medical professionals. These popular practices were built upon the earlier traditions of folk medicine and materia medica as dispensed by apothecaries, and help to show the relationships and differences between traditional old-style medicine and newly emerging scientific methods.
Dates: 1917-1989
Document Types: Advertisement Film; Documentary Film; Short Film; Feature Film; Party Political Broadcasts
Description: Collection of documentaries, newsreels and features by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British and Latin American filmmakers, ranging from the early twentieth century to the 1980s.