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 Georgia Gazette South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal New-York Journal Pennsylvania Gazette Essex Gazette Politics Boston-Gazette Domestic Manufactures Tables of Slavery Advertisements Pennsylvania Journal Price Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury Boston Evening-Post Watchmaker
25 March 2023
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “By enquiring of Mr. Blake, the Town-Sealer the public may be informed of the quality of his scale beams...
Slavery Advertisements Published March 25, 1773
25 March 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...
24 March 2023
Who was the subject of an advertisement in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “I had not just cause to attack her reputation in the manner I have published.” It...
Slavery Advertisements Published March 24, 1773
24 March 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...