Gaess Outdoor Advertising Photographs, 1950s-1960s and undated.

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Gaess Outdoor Advertising Photographs, 1950s-1960s and undated.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702134718

The Gaess Outdoor Advertising Photographs collection spans the decades of the 1950s and 1960s and includes black-and-white photographs and negatives of painted and blank billboard structures, locations, proposed locations and competitors' billboards. Clients include Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch), Cities Service, Gulf Oil, Schaefer and Schlitz. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

3,000 items (2.4 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8014901

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co.

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John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History

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Clear Channel (Firm)

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Gaess Outdoor.

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Gaess Outdoor was a family-owned outdoor advertising company founded in the 1930s in northern New Jersey, serving the New Jersey-Metropolitan New York market. It was acquired in 1997 by Universal Outdoor, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, Inc. From the description of Gaess Outdoor Advertising Photographs, 1950s-1960s and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 702134718 ...

Cities Service Gas Company

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Anheuser-Busch, inc.

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Gulf Oil Corporation

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The Gulf Oil Corporation was founded in 1901 when oil was discovered in Spindletop, Texas. The company invested millions of dollars into the development of gasoline in the early Twentieth Century. By the early 1930s it had grown into a major United States corporation. The corporation continued to grow into the 1960s. During that time Gulf Oil became an investor into Robert E. Simon's planned community in Reston, Virginia. As one of his principal investors, Gulf Oil stepped in to save the project...