debuted in April and has a lot of people talking. Locally, it鈥檚 creating a buzz at the , part of Duke's which specializes in advertising and marketing history. The center is an international resource for all things ad-related, and their archives are full of the sort of ads seen on Mad Men. In fact, the AMC show even consulted with them earlier this year to ask about the , which was featured in last week鈥檚 episode.
Hoping to have a little fun and also provide some historical context for the ads seen on the show, the Hartman Center decided to run a weekly column on their blog called 鈥淢ad Men Mondays.鈥� In it, they recap the show, note any marketing references, and post a variety of images of ads from their archive that correspond to references made on the episode. Jacqueline Reid Wachholz, director of the Hartman Center, says that the weekly hunt for Mad Men material 鈥渉as become a regular Monday morning activity鈥� there. In the past, they鈥檝e dug up references to Heinz ketchup, Dow Chemical, Sheraton Hotels in Hawaii, Jaguar, Avon, and other companies mentioned in Mad Men.
Starting Monday, 瓜神app will make the 鈥淢ad Men Mondays鈥� column available on wunc.org, along with the archival ad images that the Hartman Center finds. If you鈥檇 like to read their previous Mad Men Mondays columns, you can find them here:
- (episodes 1 & 2)
The Hartman Center also maintains an image gallery of all the historical ads they鈥檝e posted in reference to Mad Men episodes on their and pages.
