The rise of advertising in the United States : a history of innovation to 1960 / Edd Applegate.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-183) and index.

Colonial America and advertising -- The first advertising agents in the United States -- P.T. Barnum and his influence on advertising -- Lydia Pinkham and her vegetable compound: the advertising of a patent medicine -- John Wanamaker and retail advertising -- Albert Lasker and the Lord & Thomas Advertising Agency's influence on advertising -- The rise of Procter & Gamble and the advertising of Ivory soap -- Elliott White Springs and the mid-1900s advertising campaign for the Springs Cotton Mills -- Stanley B. Resor and the J. Walter Thompson Company: 1908-1961 -- The development of advertising education in the United States: a brief history.

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In The Rise of Advertising in the United States: A History of Innovation to 1960, Edd Applegate traces how the explosion of newspapers in the American colonies laid the groundwork for the first advertising agents, leading to America's first class of professional marketers. From the sensational antics of P.T. Barnum to the retail marketing magic of John Wanamaker, Applegate surveys the key figures and events that transformed the American business landscape from its colonial beginnings to that Mad Men moment when advertising "went professional."

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