Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

About this collection

    Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc. (BBDO) is an advertising agency network headquartered in New York City. The company began in 1891 as the George Batten Company and merged with Barton, Durstine & Osborn in 1928.
    In the decades since, BBDO has expanded to include locations in eighty-one countries providing advertising agency services as well as support services such as public relations, direct marketing, sales promotion, graphic arts, graphic design, and printing.
    The Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752) collection includes advertisement tear sheets, films, ledgers, marketing reports, personnel files, photographs, press coverage, publications, research reports, slides, and speeches dating from 1892 to 2019. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety.
    Image: Illustration, Chiquita banana commercial, ca. 1948. Click here to view.

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