Before Madison Avenue: Advertising in Early America is the subject of the upcoming fall conference at the American Antiquarian Society on November 4 and 5, 2011. Additional papers on the same topic will be presented at the Library Company of Philadelphia, March 15 and 16, 2012.
Speakers at this conference will present new research on advertising in North America before the rise of the modern advertising agency (late 1870s). It is jointly sponsored by VCP at LCP and the Center for Historic American Visual Culture.
The conference is free of charge for Library Company Shareholders and Friends, $50 for the general public, and $25 for students. (A membership in the Friends of the Library Company is $75.) Please register electronically(Click Here) or by calling 215-546-3181.
(From H-AMSTDY and Library Company of Philadelphia)