Ad Council Historic Campaigns
Presents a visual history of memorable advertising campaigns.
Ad*Access Project
Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.
Adclassix
Features pictures of advertisements from newspapers from the 20th century.
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.
Advertisements from the Spanish-American & Philippine-American Wars
Wartime advertising with graphic images show how companies capitalized on the public's interest in the wars and imperial ideology.
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.
Bridgestone/Firestone & Dayton Advertising Museum
Online museum presenting advertising from Bridgestone, Firestone, and Dayton products.
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.
King of Bud: Worlds Largest Budweiser Collection
An interactive, online exhibit of a private collection of advertisements, posters, and various promotional items.
Nike Advertisements
The texts of a number of advertisements, compiled by Katie Kleinman.
Old Ads
Text and images from dinky toys adverts.
Old Advertising from Historic Newspapers
Classified advertising from newspapers, dating from 1700's-1900's. Includes patent medicines, slave sales, lost and found, and real estate.
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.
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