National geographic

Scope and Contents The Lee W. Maurer Automobile Advertisement Collection consists of hundreds tear sheets (1917-1967) for automobile advertisements mostly from the pages of National Geographic magazine. The collection documents the evolution of advertising used by U.S. automakers throughout the 20th century especially the highly developed graphics used in the 1910s-1940s and early use of color in advertising (1930s-1960s). Also includes advertisements for tires. Automobiles represented include Chalmers, Wills...

Scope and Contents The Polynesian Resources Collection (1928-1939; 1983; undated) contains scholarly articles, maps, and magazine articles relating to various topics regarding Samoa and Polynesian society. Topics include Samoan grammar, earth-mounds, genus ficus, Polynesian explorers, Micronesia, and others. This collection contains mostly reprints from Journal of the Polynesian Society, and National Geographic. Also included in this collection are articles...