Personal Papers: O-Z

O'Brien's career encompassed work with JWT New York, Chicago, and London.

Executive with JWT and served as the company's Chief Executive Officer during 1986. The bulk of the material in the collection documents that one year.

First Executive Manager of the American Association of Advertising Agencies; Business Manager at Liberty magazine.

American advertising executive. Served as Chairman of Foote, Cone & Belding, Inc. and also served as President of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA).

Copy writer and executive with Kenyon & Eckhardt and J. Walter Thompson Co. New York.

Artist who worked in outdoor advertising and poster design.

Copywriter for Doyle Dane Bernbach and other advertising agencies. Part of the creative team at Bernbach credited with leading the advertising industry's "Creative Revolution" of the early 1960s.

Outdoor advertising executive in Alabama, and Chairman of the Outdoor Advertising Association of Alabama.

Engineer and researcher in the outdoor advertising industry; executive with National Outdoor Advertising Bureau (1930s–1960s) and Traffic Audit Bureau (1940s).

Executive with the J. Walter Thompson Company. Chief Operating Officer and President of JWT-USA (1984–1987) and JWT-Worldwide (1986–1987).

Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency.

Employee of J. Walter Thompson Co. involved with testimonial advertising campaigns, especially for Simmons Beautyrest, in the 1920s.

President of J. Walter Thompson Co. Latin American operations.

Reed was director of US Bureau of the Census (1940s), Director of Research and economist at JWT. Smilde was Reed's colleague and successor in the Market Research Department at JWT.
Papers include anaylsis of population trends and views of the private enterprise system, among other research topics.

President of General Outdoor Advertising Company.

Graphic designer and artist, specializing in packaging, typography, and corporate visual identity.

Executive in the Frankfurt (Germany) Office of the J. Walter Thompson Company in the 1970s and 1980s.

Billboard and graphic artist.

Radio announcer, radio and television programming producer; executive with Young & Rubicam (1940s–1950s) and J. Walter Thompson Co. agencies (1950s–1960s); Chief Executive Officer of J. Walter Thompson Co. in the 1960s.

Director of J. Walter Thompson's Frankfurt (Germany) Office in the 1960s.

Slabugh was a collector of coins and paper money, as well as a mail order promoter.
Collection offers overview of mail order industry during pre-war and World War II-era United States.

Art Director for various agencies, including William H. Weintraub & Co., Norman Craig & Kummel, and Ogilvy & Mather.

Copy writer for several advertising agencies including: Ted Bates & Co.; Ogilvy & Mather; Compton Advertising, Inc.; and Needham, Harper & Steers.

Advertising executive at the J. Walter Thompson Company London Office working primarily in the Control Department.

Executive with Gershuny Advertising, Leo Burnett, and other advertising agencies; specialist in supermarket advertising.

Outdoor advertising executive, primarily in the Pennsylvania region, working with Superior Sign Systems, Penn-York Advertising, and Lamar Outdoor Advertising.

Pioneer in direct mail, director of Greystone Press which specialized in subscription encyclopedias and continuity series books.

Executive and consultant with J. Walter Thompson Co.; taught advertising at Marist College (NY).

President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of J. Walter Thompson Co. in the 1950s and 1960s.

Director of International Operations for J. Walter Thompson Co. in the 1960s; Executive Vice President of JWT Group, Inc.

Copy writer and Creative Department executive with J. Walter Thompson Co. in the 1940s and 1950s.

Writer of radio and television commercials, 1950s; executive and consultant for J. Walter Thompson Co. 1960s–1990s.

Photographer retained by J. Walter Thompson Co. to document company events.

Executive at Ogilvy & Mather, Leo Burnett agencies; specialist in marketing communications.

Executive at N.W. Ayer & Sons, Lord & Thomas, and Kenyon & Eckhardt agencies; consultant in marketing and communications.

Executive and General Counsel for J. Walter Thompson Co. in the 1950s and 1960s.

President, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Board of J. Walter Thompson Co. in the 1970s.

Executive with the McCann Erickson agency (1940s) and J. Walter Thompson Co. International Division (1940s–1950s).

Advertising executive primarily in direct marketing, founder of an agency in his name, currently a subsidiary of Young & Rubicam.

Advertising copy writer and artist. Managed his own agency (Jean W. Yeager, Inc.) and taught at several Waldorf Method Institutions. Director of the Anthroposophical Society in America.

Executive and consultant with J. Walter Thompson Co. 1900s-1960s; Professor of Business History and Advertising, University of Chicago; founder of War Advertising Council, precursor to the Advertising Council.