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English: 1895 advertisement for Bissell Carpet Sweepers.
Earnest Elmo Calkins won a national contest with this design for Bissell Carpet Sweepers. Within a few months, he left his hometown to pursue a career in advertising. |
| Date | 17 January 2011 (original upload date) |
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From Galesburg Evening Mail, Dec. 9, 1895, p. 8. from Claude Hopkins, Earnest Calkins, Bissell Carpet Sweepers and the Birth of Modern Advertising (http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jga/7.2/schorman.html)
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| Author | Btphelps at en.wikipedia |
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- 2011-01-17 21:42 (UTC) | Btphelps | 19208 (bytes) | 350×488 | Earnest Elmo Calkins won a national contest with this design for Bissell Carpet Sweepers. Within a few months, he left his hometown to pursue a career in advertising. From Galesburg Evening Mail, Dec. 9, 1895, p. 8. from [[ Claude Hopkins, Earnest Calkins
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| current | 06:13, 26 September 2011 | | 350 × 488 (19 KB) | SreeBot | (Original text) : Earnest Elmo Calkins won a national contest with this design for Bissell Carpet Sweepers. Within a few months, he left his hometown to pursue a career in advertising. From Galesburg Evening Mail, Dec. 9, 1895, p. 8. from [[ Claude Hopkin |
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