... traces his interest in history to childhood travel, to growing up in a home furnished with early American décor and to a lifelong passion for antique collecting. Historical research in marketing and consumption fit his independent personality, and has made the best use of his scholarly skill set...

...Richard W. Pollay Purpose This paper aims to examine the role played by collecting in a productive academic career. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is autobiographic and bibliographic recollections about the collecting of advertising books, notes, advertisements, documents...