From the Archives: A Vintage Photo Tour of Agencies

Account executive Kaye Sullivan reviews a storyboard with an artist at the O'Brien and Dorrance agency in New York, 1947.

Pearl and Dean chairman ERNEST PEARL centre sits in conference with joint managing directors ROBERT DEAN aka Bob Dean and CHARLES PEARL c.1953.

Cleo Hovel, president of Minneapolis agency Campbell Mithun, discusses creative work with Don Grawert, who later became creative group head, in 1953.

A secretary at Young & Rubicam in 1956 admires a visitor's Royalite portable typewriter.

The 'Traitorous Eight' who started Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and in the process invented Silicon Valley. From left, Eugene Kleiner, Julius Blank, Gordon Moore, Sheldon Roberts, Jay Last, Robert Noyce, Jean Hoerni, and Victor Grinich.

The art department at Grey Group Advertising, New York City, 1959.

Grey Advertising, 1959.

The McCann Erickson Agency on Madison Avenue, Manhattan, 1959.

a late-1950s brainstorming session at BBDO.

Top executives at Leo Burnett in 1961: Leonard S. Mathews, Draper Daniels (an inspiration for Mad Men's Don Draper), Philip H. Schaff Jr., and Edward M. Thiele.

Publicis founder and director Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet in 1962 at his agency's Paris office on the Champs-Elysses.

Bill Bernbach, in his New York office, showing off the work of Doyle Dane Bernbach, 1966.

President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with Lester Wunderman in 1968. Wunderman led a contingent from the Ad Council to the White House Rose Garden to be congratulated for their successful launch of the ZIP code.

Top copywriter Phyllis Robinson in her office, July 2, 1968. Robinson helped create memorable campaigns for Polaroid and others during her career at Doyle Dane Benbach.

William Heinecke (c.) with colleagues in 1969, pausing in front of a sign for the ad agency he ran in Thailand.

BBDO copywriter Phil Dusenberry and James Jordan Jr. sharing a drink and a chat in the 1970s.

Female employees at the Lois Holland Callaway agency in New York showing off their hot pants in 1971.

This 1974 advertisement for Winston cigarettes near Madison Square Garden in New York was at the time one of the largest signs ever painted, stretching for 20 stories and requiring 125 gallons of paint and 1,400 man hours.

Mary Wlls Lawrence with co-workers at the Jack Tinker & Partners agency, just before she founded the Wells, Rick & Green Advertising agency.

Maurice Saatchi (l.) and his brother Charles Saatchi, co-foungers of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, in 1978.