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International Advertising and Marketing: Americas & Carribbean

This is a guide to collections at the Hartman Center documenting the J. Walter Thompson Company's history as a transnational advertising agency, including its international advertising and marketing activities outside of the United States.

JWT Offices in the Americas and the Caribbean

Argentina

  • Buenos Aires 1929

Bolivia

  • La Paz 1978

Brazil

  • São Paulo 1929
  • Rio de Janeiro 1931

Canada

  • Toronto in 1911-1916, 1930
  • Montreal 1929
  • Vancouver 1958

Chile

  • Santiago 1929-1944 

Colombia

  • Bogota 1944

Ecuador

  • Quito and Guayaquil 1982

Guatemala

  • Presence by 1974

Jamaica

  • Presence in Kingston by 1938

Mexico

  • Mexico City 1943

Paraguay

  • The nature and scope of JWT’s presence in Paraguay are currently unknown.

Peru

  • The nature and scope of JWT’s presence in Peru are currently unknown.

Uruguay

  • Montevideo 1929

Venezuela

  • Venezuela 1955 and 1964

JWT in the Americas and Carribbean

News Letter, vol. XI, no. 48 (December 15, 1929)

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