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Advertisements, as historian Roland Marchand pointed out, sought to adjust Americans to modern life, a life lived in a consumer society. Since the 1920s, American advertising has grown massively, and current advertising expenditures are eighty times greater than in that decade. New media–radio, television, and the Internet–deliver ...
May 24, 2016 · 1915 - 1920. 1915 - The Franz Premier Electric Cleaner is advertised for $25. It weighs 9 pounds, an improvement over the 1913 Bissell Electric Suction Cleaner which weighed 33 pounds. 1915 - The taxicab makes its first appearance in American cities. Service costs a nickel and the popularity of cabs leads to the development of intercity bus lines.
- Josh Larkin Rowley
- 2016
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Statistics: The American Economy during the 1920s | Cars on the Road 1919 6.7 million 1929 23 million Percentage of Households with Radios 1925 19 percent (5,000,000 homes) 1929 | Cars on the Road 1919 6.7 million 1929 23 million Percentage of Households with Radios 1925 19 percent (5,000,000 homes) 1929 35 to 40 percent Sales of Radios 1922 $60 million 1929 $842.6 million Wage Levels and the ...
1920. Report Number Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1919 (Forty-second Number) Download Part 1 [PDF - 2.0 MB] The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published from 1878 to 2012, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
U.S. Annual Advertising Spending Since 1919. This table has been revised slightly on Sept. 14, 2008. Advertising expenditure by media and type is now available. Year. Total Ad Spending (m.) Ad Spending in News, Mags., Radio, TV (m.) GDP (b.) Ads as % of GDP. 1919.
About the Digital Collection ». This collection presents over 3,300 items relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous ...
A brief historical account of the development of American advertising published with the 50th anniversary edition of Printers’ Ink. Reed, David. “Growing Up: The Evolution of Advertising in Youth’s Companion During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Advertising History 10:1 (1987): 20-36.
