 Guide
to Locating Print Advertisements on the Internet
Adflip.Com
http://adflip.com/
A searchable archive of print advertisements from 1940 to
2001. You can search by keyword, category (e.g. “Entertainment”), year, or
decade. Ask the reference librarians or your professor for the
password
to this database. Limited to one Augustana user at a time.
Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/index.html
The Ad*Access Project, located at Duke
University, presents images of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and
Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates
on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and
Hygiene, and World War II. You can browse or search the collections.
Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
From Duke University, this online collection
includes over 9000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the
U.S. The images are divided into 11 categories, such as “tobacco advertising,”
which can be browsed or searched.
National Medicine and Madison Avenue
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/
From Duke University and the National Humanities
Center, this website includes about 600 health-related images of ads from the
1910’s to the 1950’s. Browse such categories as personal hygiene or diet
products.
Museum of American History at the Smithsonian
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/index.cfm
One of the museum’s online collections is
advertising in which can be found print ads about Ivory Soap and Eskimo Pies.
New online collections will be periodically added.
The
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Communications Library, Online
Advertising Exhibit
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/adexhibit/
This online exhibit is arranged by broad
categories, such as “alcohol” and “beauty” and shows several images in each
category.
19th Century Advertising from Harper’s Weekly,
1857-1872
http://advertising.harpweek.com/
Examples of ads from the early pages of Harper’s
Weekly. Consumer goods, Civil War products, and retailers are some of the kinds
of ads included.
The Commercial Closet
http://www.commercialcloset.org/cgi-bin/iowa/about.html
The Commercial Closet Association collects ads
with GLBT themes back to 1917; the on-line collection numbers over 2500. In the
“Themes” section, you can browse such categories as “hot stuff,” “situations,”
and “identities.”
Gender Ads.com
http://www.genderads.com/
Over 2500 advertising images that relate to
gender. Dr. Scott A. Lukas, the founder of the site, categorizes the ads into
useful sections and sub-sections, such as, “females in ads/as naggers.”
Last updated September 7, 2005
Created by
Margi Rogal, Reference Librarian.
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