William Van Duyn Tobacco Advertisement Collection 1898-2002

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William Van Duyn Tobacco Advertisement Collection 1898-2002

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/med.ms.0020

William Van Duyn, a former smoker, collected advertisements and news articles related to tobacco, especially to cigarette smoking. These include cigarette advertisements by company and brand; other forms of tobacco advertisements including billboards (photographs taken by Van Duyn), merchandise catalogs, and sponsorship of racing; and newspaper and magazine articles and ephemera related to the anti-smoking movement and tobacco regulation and litigation.

46 linear ft. (187 binders)

eng,

Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6350207

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

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American Council on Science and Health

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Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company

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P. Lorillard Company

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Van Duyn, William

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This collection of magazine advertisements, ephemera, articles, and photographs, was begun in 1994 by William Van Duyn, then a resident of Voluntown, Connecticut, who became fascinated by the ubiquity and deceptiveness of tobacco advertisements as a byproduct of his own effort to quit smoking. In addition to collecting, he founded a website to help others to quit. Van Duyn organized his advertisements, etc. into labeled looseleaf binders with the overall title "Gnikoms!" for smoking...

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R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

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