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• Arts: Graphic Design: History  (30)
• Recreation: Collecting: Advertising Collectibles  (123)
• Science: Social Sciences: Economics: Economic History  (67)

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.