James Walter Thompson
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James Walter Thompson was the founder of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency and a pioneer of many advertising techniques.
Thompson in 1910
1868 portrait
The cover of Souvenir of Cranford (1894) by architect Frank T. Lent, depicting Thompson's opera house in Cranford, New Jersey
Cranford, New Jersey
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Cranford is a township in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located 18 miles southwest of New York City. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 23,847, an incr
Droeschers Mill, built in 1737 on the Rahway River
Paddlers race past the Cranford Canoe Club on the Rahway River during the annual Fourth of July competition in Cranford.
Cranford as depicted on a 1913 Board of Trade brochure