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Records, 1967-1990

Title: Records, 1967-1990

Addenda to the records of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), a national membership organization with state affiliates, founded in 1968 and dedicated to improving the status and lives of all women primarily through education, litigation, and legislation.

ArchivalResource: 78 cartons, 3 ½ file boxes, 6 folio folders, 3 folio+ folders, 2 oversize folders, 1 supersize folder, 37 folders of photographs

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00301/catalog View

Bartos, Rena. Rena Bartos papers, 1960-1998 and undated bulk 1975-1991.

Title: Rena Bartos papers, 1960-1998 and undated bulk 1975-1991.

Collection documents Bartos' career through speeches and presentations, publications, correspondence, research files, slides, photographs and videotapes. Major topics include marketing to under-represented groups, the role of women in advertising, and Bartos' efforts to promote marketing towards women and "over forty-nine" adults. The Speeches and Presentations Series includes reading copies or scripts from speeches and presentations given by Bartos during her career. Dominant themes include the role of women in advertising, marketing to underrepresented groups such as women and people in Latin America and India, and the psychological aspects of advertising. In addition, the series includes the slides and graphics Bartos used in her speeches, as well as press clippings from her various speaking engagements. The Correspondence Series includes business correspondence, mailings and solicitations from Bartos' career in marketing research, as well as correspondence with JWT executives, including Don Johnston and Thomas Sutton. The series also contains correspondence between Bartos and the various publishers of her written works. The Publications Series includes copies of the articles written by Bartos for scholarly and trade publications such as The Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Advertising Research, Marketing Review, and Marketing and Research Today, either from the original periodical or in pre-print form. The Research Series includes an extensive collection of newspaper and periodical clippings and other resources used by Bartos as supporting materials for her speaking engagements, articles, and books. The Audiovisual Materials Series includes audio and visual recordings of promotional works for marketing campaigns, including The Moving Target. In addition, this series also includes tapes of speeches and interviews given by Bartos, some of which relate to the published article "The Founding Fathers of Advertising Research."

ArchivalResource: 11625 items (18.6 lin. ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/72813939 View

J. Walter Thompson Company. Iconographic Collection, 1848-2005 and undated

Title: J. Walter Thompson Company. Iconographic Collection, 1848-2005 and undated

Founded in 1864, the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. The Iconographic Collection spans the years 1848-2005 with the bulk of materials dating between 1940 and 1985, and includes black-and-white and color photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, photograph albums, and microfiche. It is an artificial collection created to document the facilities, key events, advertising highlights and corporate culture of the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT). Domestic and international offices are included, with the New York, Chicago and London offices being the most heavily represented. Key executives include James Walter Thompson, Stanley and Helen Landsdowne Resor, Don Johnston, Dan Seymour, Norm Strouse, and E.G. Wilson. Client advertising includes Ford, Kodak, Chesebrough-Pond's, Lever Brothers (Unilever), and Warner-Lambert. Notable photographers whose work appears in the collection include Fabian Bachrach, Ralph Bartholomew, Cecil Beaton, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Philippe Halsman, Horst P. Horst, George Hurrell, Yousuf Karsh, Baron Adolf de Meyer, Bill Ray, Jean Raeburn, Edward Steichen, Thomas Veres, Brett Weston and Dorothy Wilding. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

ArchivalResource: 90 Linear Feet; 30,000 Items

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J. Walter Thompson Company. Biographical Information, 1916-1998 (bulk 1960s-1980s)

Title: J. Walter Thompson Company. Biographical Information, 1916-1998 (bulk 1960s-1980s)

The J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT), founded in 1864, is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. The J. Walter Thompson Company Biographical Information collection includes articles, clippings, press releases, internal memoranda and other printed materials that pertain to the lives and careers of over 3,000 managers, executives and staff members of JWT. Extensive files exist for some notable JWT executives, including Don Johnston, Helen and Stanley Resor, Norman Strouse, James Walter Thompson, and James Webb Young.

ArchivalResource: 21 Linear Feet; 19,000 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/jwtbiofiles/ View

J. Walter Thompson Company. Albert B. Stridsberg Papers, 1955-1976 and n.d.

Title: Albert B. Stridsberg Papers, 1955-1976 and n.d.

Collection (3000 items, dated 1955-1979) contains miscellaneous correspondence, memos, reports, speeches, and printed items relating to Stridsberg's career at JWT. Substantive material on the agency's international offices and clients. Contains publications on international marketing of tobacco as well as speeches by Rena Bartos and other officers of the company. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History. (94-111). Addition (23 items, dated 1956-1976 and n.d.) comprises printed material (21 items, 1956-1960) and two 16mm film reels containing TV commercials. Printed material includes issues of a serial, "Motivations" (1956-1957), and other bulletins published by Ernest Dichter's Institute for Motivational Research. There is a "Catalogue of Television Commercials Monitored Off-the-Air for Competitive Research" by U.S. Tele-Service Corporation (1960). Commercials are copies of Coca-Cola campaigns by McCann-Erickson agency (n.d.) and a 1976 reel from Dancer Fitzgerald Sample. (00-444).

ArchivalResource: 3023 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47059728 View

J. Walter Thompson Company. International Intelligence Unit Records, 1981-1994.

Title: International Intelligence Unit Records, 1981-1994.

This collection comprises mainly printed items from the New York and other offices of the agency that relate to marketing products to international, but primarily Latin American, consumers. Materials include newsletters, graphics standards manuals, and commemorative memorabilia. Also included are two presentations by Rena Bartos, one entitled "Target Latin America: The Changing Consumer Marketplace," with color (80) and black-and-white (10) slides, as well as some background information (1986). Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History. (00-388).

ArchivalResource: 140 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46719286 View

J. Walter Thompson Company. Writings and Speeches, 1912-2000 and undated.

Title: Writings and Speeches, 1912-2000 and undated.

The J. Walter Thompson Company Writings and Speeches collection spans 1912 through 2000 and includes primarily printed texts of speeches given by advertising executives employed at the J. Walter Thompson Company. Also included to a lesser extent are clippings or reprints of articles, reports, and white papers, along with some books written in whole or in part by JWT staff. Topics include general trends in advertising and marketing, specific themes related to JWT's policies and philosophies, year-end reports, specific marketing strategies. Notable individuals represented include Rena Bartos, Charlotte Beers, Jeremy Bullmore, Nariman Dhalla, Arno Johnson, Don Johnston, Denis Lanigan, Burt Manning, Vergil Reed, Stanley Resor, Dan Seymour, Norman H. Strouse, and James Webb Young. The collection was originally started by the Information Center of JWT New York Office. Collection is arranged alphabetically by last name; therein materials are arranged chronologically. At the end of the named listing, there are grouped writings and speeches involving multiple authors; materials where authorship cannot be attributed; and writings that comprised the Creative Forum in the 1960s.

ArchivalResource: 20,000 items (30 lin. ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233721189 View

Women's Economic Round Table. Records, 1976-2005 (bulk: 1978-2004)

Title: Records of the Women's Economic Round Table, 1976-2005 (inclusive), 1978-2004 (bulk)

The records of the Women's Economic Round Table®, Inc., a New York City-based educational and networking forum, document over 25 years of public programs featuring speakers prominent in national and global business, finance, and economics.

ArchivalResource: 5.84 linear feet (14 file boxes), 8 photograph folders, 43 audiotapes, 24 videotapes, 4 PhotoCDs

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00375/catalog View