American Advertising in the 1920s

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Vintage Advertisement for the Ford Motor Company, Photoplay magazine, July 1925.

Ford's Automobile - video

Adapted from A Science Odyssey: "Bigger, Better, Faster". Photographs and footage courtesy of Getty, Henry Ford Museum and NARA.

© 1998 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

New Consumer Habits - image

Muncie [Indiana ] PostDemocrat, Dec. 2, 1927

The Availability of Credit - image

Benson Ford Research Center, The Henry Ford.

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