New USSTC Videos and More Bliley Docs for LTDL

114 U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC) videos are now part of the LTDL Multimedia Collection.

USSTC is a leading manufacturer of smokeless tobacco products including Skoal and Copenhagen. The 114 new videos are from 1970-1980s and include numerous commercials featuring Charlie Daniels – country and southern rock musician, Carlton Fisk – baseball hall of famer, and Shep Messing – soccer goalkeeper. USSTC was an active sponsor of American football players, NASCAR, the Skoal Bandit team, Winston Cup winner Harry Gant and the yearly Copenhagen-Skoal Rodeo Superstars Championship.

To find these videos on LTDL, search the Multimedia collection for “origcn: us smokeless tobacco". If a particular video is available for immediate viewing on Internet Archive, the record will link to the video under "Access Now at Internet Archive"

Highlights from this collection can also be seen on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ltdlmultimedia. These clips have proven very popular with more than 1,500 viewings since February 25, 2009.


New Documents added from the TDO site:

• American Tobacco - 76 documents, 2275 pages
• Bliley Brown & Williamson - 46 documents, 1947 pages
• Bliley Lorillard - 3 documents, 106 pages
• Bliley Philip Morris - 37 documents, 447 pages
• Bliley RJ Reynolds - 7644 documents, 33379 pages
• Philip Morris - 1 document, 56 pages
• RJ Reynolds - 13 documents, 452 pages

Total number of documents added (including USSTC videos) = 8,749

To find these newly added documents, search on the date they were posted to LTDL - <ddu:20090423>

**As of Thursday, April 23, 2009, LTDL contains 52,370,115 pages in 10,057,259 documents.

**Many thanks to TDO for sharing documents with us and allowing us to work towards completing our holdings in certain collections and special collections!