Memory of a pre-Internet America, door-to-door sales of brushes (Fuller brush men), vacuum cleaners, encyclopedias and bibles were all part of the incorporation of rural and even suburban America into national consumption. As envoys of modernity these sales representatives (generally male) also had dubious reputations: the traveling salesman and the farmer’s daughter is a standard scenario of American dirty humor. Yet their era was fading by the time of Albert and David Maysles’ documentary Salesman (1969). While females also participated in these areas, they were known for appointment/party sales of domestic goods and cosmetics—Avon and Tupperware.