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By: J. Walter Thompson Company

Date: 1917–1919

Source: J. Walter Thompson House Ads. "Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850–1920." John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History. Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Available online at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu.eaa; website home page: http://www.scriptrorium.lib.duke.edu (accessed June 5, 2002).

About the Author: James Walter Thompson (1847–1928) entered the advertising business in 1868. Ten years later he was operating his own firm, the J. Walter Thompson Company, and soon had offices in New York, Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati, and London. Thompson's career spans the...