Sidney Ralph Bernstein company history files, 1873-1964 (bulk 1963-1964).

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Sidney Ralph Bernstein company history files, 1873-1964 (bulk 1963-1964).

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Consists primarily of research files containing transcripts of interviews; notes and excerpts copied from publications, facsimile copies, correspondence, and printed material; correspondence and memoranda; manuscripts; speeches; indexes; clippings; lists; and chronologies. The files were created by Sidney Ralph Bernstein and Marianne Keating, his research assistant, for a commemorative history of the J. Walter Thompson Company at the time of its centennial anniversary. The history was not published. The collection documents the J. Walter Thompson Company, especially through personal reminiscences, recollections, and evaluations of the company by its executives and other employees; advertising executives; women in the advertising industry; and J. Walter Thompson, founder of the company.

3,000 items (4 linear ft.).

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7290925

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Bernstein, Sidney Ralph, 1907-1993

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J. Walter Thompson company

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Advertising agency. From the description of Radio programs, 1953-1961 and n.d. [sound recording]. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 37954564 After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, Lois Gaeta worked at the J. Walter Thompson Company advertising agency as a script writer for television and radio commercials during the years 1955 through 1961. Later in her career, Gaeta worked in video and in continuing education programs in the medical profession. ...

Thompson, James Walter, 1847-1928

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James Baird Thompson was born in Greene County, Pa., in 1840. In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Thompson's brother-in-law, General Edward M. McCook to the post of Territorial Governor of Colorado. McCook in turn named Thompson as his private secretary. Thompson also served as Auditor of Public Accounts and as Special Agent for the Seven Bands of the Ute Indians in Colo. After his resignation as special agent, Thompson moved his family to northeastern Colo. and built the first house a...