Carl Robert Keyes
The Adverts 250 Project explores the history of advertising in eighteenth-century America. It features a daily image of an advertisement published in a colonial newspaper 250 years ago that week. Brief commentary accompanies each advertisement.
Daily updates are supplemented with longer posts that analyze individual advertisements in greater detail, highlight other marketing items from the period, or examine issues related to research and accessibility of historical sources.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Daily Advert Update Slavery Adverts 250 Project Providence Gazette Guest Contribution New-Hampshire Gazette South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal Georgia Gazette New-York Journal Pennsylvania Gazette Essex Gazette Boston-Gazette Politics Pennsylvania Journal Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter Domestic Manufactures Price Tables of Slavery Advertisements Boston Evening-Post Woodcut New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury
4 December 2023
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “THOSE LADIES and GENTLEMEN who are desirous of seeing the curious ART of PRINTING, are hereby informed that...
Slavery Advertisements Published December 4, 1773
4 December 2023
The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity...
3 December 2023
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Hill’s Balsam of Honey, Ditto Elixir Bardana.” Simon Wolcott advertised a “fresh and general Assortment...
Slavery Advertisements Published December 3, 1773
3 December 2023
The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity...