The Art of American Advertising will be on display at the Baker Library Bloomberg Center at Harvard Business School until April 5, 2014. Advertising during that period did not consist of online internet ads but were merely posters, circulars or ads hanging down the side of buildings. The exhibit will include trade cards as well as souvenir publications that were used during the 19th century for marketing purposes. The ads during that century show the emergence of the industrial revolution, commercial expansion and a boost in advertising products.

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Cyber Monday Antidote: An Exhibit of 19th Century American Advertising – Forbes