Historical print and TV advertisements, magazine covers, cinema posters, comics, postcards, cigarette cards, and more. Register for access to larger images.
A digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s through the 1980s, and created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles advertising agency.
A database of over 9,000 advertising items and publications (1850 - 1920), illustrating the rise of consumer culture, and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry.
The History of Advertising Trust has amassed the largest archive of British advertising in the world. It is a unique collection that dates from the early 1800s to the present day.
A database of over 600 health-related advertisements printed between 1911 and 1958, as well as 35 selected historical documents relating to health-related advertising.
A database of over 50,000 descriptions of images of outdoor advertising dating from the 1920s through the 1990s, pulled from four outdoor advertising collections including the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA). NOTE: Images are not in the public domain. Consult the copyright if you intend to use an image in a project.
Sociological Images is designed to encourage all kinds of people to exercise and develop their sociological imagination by presenting brief sociological discussions of compelling and timely imagery that spans the breadth of sociological inquiry.
Multimedia resources from the Library of Congress that support instruction about advertising. These resources include expert presentations, exhibitions, bibliographies, Webcasts, and other online materials.
Advertising Museum Tokyo (ADMT) is the only museum in Japan dedicated to promoting the importance of advertising and marketing studies --- both to the academic community and to the general public.
