Original Advertising Images Wanted
The Hershenson Archive seeks
to collect original advertising images from every movie ever made. It collects in the
following areas:
Pressbooks The
archive has over 25,000 different, covering all years and studios. It purchases large
quantities of pressbooks and will take ones it already has to get ones it needs. It
is not important if the pressbooks have ads cut out, as long as that is reflected in the
price. Note that the archive already has pressbooks from most mainstream
films from 1960 on. We are only interested in pre-1960 titles, or obscure
titles from after 1960.
Studio Yearbooks,
Studio Magazines, and Studio Datebooks The archive has over 500 different, and seeks any it doesn't have.
These are the annual hardcover (or sometimes oversized softcover) volumes
prepared by each studio for most years from the middle 1910s through the 1970s
(at least).
Magazines aimed at
Theater Owners The archive has over 5000 different, including at
least half of all published since 1930. Titles such as Box Office, Motion Picture Herald,
Wid's Daily, Showman's Trade Review, etc. Please note that we have at
least half of all magazines made (and most after 1960, but we will buy ones we
already have to get ones we don't have).
Broadway Playbills and Other Theatrical
Publications The archive has the "Impossible Dream" of getting a
playbill from every stage production ever!
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Please help with this massive project.
You can turn unwanted material into cash, and know you have helped to preserve material that is collected nowhere else in the world. If you would prefer to trade, the archive will trade any of the publications listed on this
website.
Contact Bruce. |
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