Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures

A lively history of advertising from ancient signs and town criers to the newspaper notices and posters of Victorian London. It is full of curious specimens, anecdotes and facsimiles of old ads.

Henry Sampson

How advertising exploded in Victorian and Edwardian Britain and how the law tried to keep up with it. Rosenberg shows why ads were seen as a kind of modern magic and what that meant for culture and regulation.

Anat Rosenberg

A 1910 guide to billboards and posters as an advertising medium, written by the ad manager of a major soap maker. It includes 32 pages of full color posters used by national advertisers of the time.

George H. E. Hawkins

A collection of old newspaper ads from colonial Boston and Salem, with notes on what they reveal about daily life. A fun and quick look at how people sold goods and services centuries ago.

Henry M. Brooks