The Conference on Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing (CHARM) will hold its next meeting on May 28-31, 2015, on board the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. The theme of the meeting will be "Crossing Boundaries, Spanning Borders: Voyages around Marketing's Past." The meeting will be preceded by a Doctoral Workshop on Historical Methods in Marketing Scholarship. The call for papers states: "Both individual papers and entire panels on all aspects of marketing history, historic marketing, and the history of marketing thought in all geographic areas and all time frames are welcome. In accord with the Conference theme, we welcome papers that both examine the history of marketing as a discipline and also critically draw on marketing as a source in reconstructing the past." The submission deadline is December 14, 2014. For a fuller description of the conference theme and directions for submission, please see the complete call for papers.
The Princeton University Library has digitized a number of posters from the Interborough Rapid Transit Subway Company . The posters, designed by the public relations firm Ivy Lee, were displayed in subway cars to provide information to riders about changes in fares and routes, safety issues, and other matters of interest. The collection consists of 385 images dating from 1918 to 1932; many of them provide financial information about rates, company dividends, and a general look at an early rapid transit system. October 29, update: Jonathan Rees over at "More or Less Bunk" was moved by this post to go off in search of a better site, and found the massive collection of the London Transport Museum , which displays over 5,000 items in a searchable collection .
