Advertising Images

  • Ad*Access
    "The Ad*Access Project presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955."

  • Ad Flip
    "Ad Flip is the world's largest searchable database of classic print ads from 1940 to the present. You can search by category, by decade, and by year."

  • American Advertising Museum
    The American Advertising Museum houses a comprehensive collection of advertising and business artifacts, and their website includes an Advertising Timeline.

  • Emergence of Advertising in America
    (1850-1920) "EAA presents over 9,000 images that illustrate the rise of consumer culture, especially after the American Civil War, and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States."

  • Harpweek's 19th Century Advertising History
    "HarpWeek has manually indexed all of the almost 40,000 advertisements that appeared in Harper's Weekly during the 1857-1871 period."

  • Truth In Advertising
    "A collection of vintage cigarette advertisements from the 1940's and 1950's"