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Burroughs Advertisements

The following is a sample of Burroughs advertisements over the years for a variety of products. Advertisements are critical research tools for collectors because they are almost always dated, and they tend to document new products being released to the market.

An additional common form of advertising are ink blotters. While blotters have been used for many years, the widespread use as advertisements really took hold in the late 1800's and continued to grow as a medium for ads reaching a peak in about the 1930's.  Many different ink blotter ads were produced over the years by Burroughs, many with local branch stampings to allow local contact and promote sales.

An excellent place to start your own collection of ads is to watch eBay.  Many ads for all manufacturers are common place and the pictures contained in the eBay listings can be downloaded to your system for future reference.  In most cases the pictures are good enough to read the ad print.

1912 Calculator (Old Construction)                   1930 Burroughs Portable                 1930 Moon-Hopkins Bookkeeping

    1930 Class 6 Bookkeeping                                        1956 Duplex Class 5                                              1900 Class 1

                1909 Class 1                            1926 Burroughs Portable                                       1957 Class 5 Family

               1928 Class 6                                 1929 Class 51035 Electric                                     1931 Cash Machine

     1948 Class 5 Model, 51055                                  1953 Series P                                             1957 J 200 and P 200

1901 American Arithmometer – The Burroughs Registering Accountant                                          1925 Class 3

                     1929 Class 4                                     1934 Class 5 Duplex (wide)                          1948 Class 5 Duplex         

                        1954 P 200 (The Director)                                                              1956 Ten Key Class J (in colors)