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The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History acquires, preserves, and promotes materials that document the history of the advertising, marketing, and sales industries, as well as the consumer movement.  The center, housed at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, makes these materials available to a diverse group of researchers from around the world.   The Hartman Center collections include advertising agency records, items from advertising collectors, archives from Consumer Reports, Direct Marketing materials, outdoor advertising content, professional papers from industry leaders, sales literature, tobacco advertising & ephemera, and items from numerous trade associations.  See https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/hartman/about for more details.

Herbert M. Webster began chronicling his adventures of the Great Smoky Mountains at age 16 when he attended at Rotary Club camps for underprivileged boys is Gatlinburg.  He has since captured many enduring images of the Smoky Mountain backcountry, including nearly 600 images in this collection.