Advertising History
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Ad*Access Project - Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.
Adflip - Searchable archive of classic automobile and other ads from the 1940's through 1990's. Offers link services to each ad from client's web site.
Advertising Museum from Ace Novelty Promotional Products - This online museum has advertising of old posters, billboards, magazine and newspaper from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Advertising of Installment Plans During the 1920s - Paper examines how American business used advertising in the 1920's to convince consumers to buy on installment.
Coca-Cola Television Advertisements - Collection of historic advertisements donated by the Coca Cola corporation to the Library of Congress. Videos available in RealPlayer, QuickTime, and MPEG formats.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 - Covering the early history of advertising in the United States, and drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
The Ephemera Society of America, Inc. - A non-profit organization devoted to furthering the collection, study, and preservation of ephemera, including advertising trade cards and related advertising forms.
Ghost Signs - A short history of those fading yet fantastic old advertising images on brick walls and barns sometimes called ghost signs.
HarpWeek Presents 19th Century Advertising - Images and articles about advertisements that appeared in Harper's Weekly.
History of Advertising Trust - Preserves the best of British advertising for posterity. Site contents include an archive of work and current exhibition details.
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History - The Center collects, organizes, and provides access to a vast collection of textual and multimedia resources for the student, scholar, and businessperson.
Philip H. Dougherty Remembered - Tribute to Philip H. Dougherty the Advertising Columnist of the New York Times for over twenty years. Video interviews with peers and samples of radio broadcasts.
Truth in Advertising - A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco and cigarette advertising. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.