Gordon E. Cole Advertising History Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Cole, Gordon E. (advertising executive)
label: Names
content: Advertising Council
label: Names
content: Association of National Advertisers
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content: Can Manufacturers Institute.
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content: Cannon Mills, Inc.
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content: Pedlar & Ryan Ad Agency.
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content: Wartime Ad Council.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Executives -- advertising
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content: advertising -- World War, 1939-1945
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content: advertising
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Madelene Cole, 1990.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cole, Gordon E. (advertising executive)
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content: Gordon E. Cole Advertising History Papers
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Gordon E. Cole's advertising career spanned thirty years, and this collection documents his work and interests.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1879-1899; 1926-1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0371
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Business letters
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content: Clippings
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content: Trade cards
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content: Tear sheets
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content: Speeches
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content: Scrapbooks
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content: Pamphlets
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content: Ephemera
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into four series. 

Series 1: Correspondence, 1926-1964	
 
Series 2: Unpublished Papers, 1942-1957	

Series 3: Wartime Proceedings of the Association of National Advertisers, 1941-1944	

Series 4: Advertising Ephemera, 1879-1964
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This collection was processed by Mimi L. Minnick, archivist, 1991.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
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content: Business letters
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content: Clippings
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Tear sheets
label: Genre/Form
content: Speeches
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Pamphlets
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Correspondence, speeches, clippings, unpublished manuscripts, scrapbooks related to advertising.
label: Scope and Contents note
content: In addition to Cole's professional work, the collection documents his involvement in professional associations, including the Association of National Advertisers, the Advertising Research Foundation, and the Advertising Council. Also includes the published findings of three ANA-commissioned surveys of wartime advertising and the proceedings of wartime ANA conferences; and a scrapbook of advertising ephemera, including late nineteenth-century trade cards and pamphlets. There is a letter in Box 1, folder 1, correspondence from Cole to Barry Goldwater noting he would not be voting for Goldwater in the 1964 Presidential Election due to Goldwater's stand on Civil Rights.