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Best Brands of the World
Browse a large collection of logos and brands in vector format. Enables designers to access vector forms of well-known logos for use in presentations, given the permission of the copyright owner.
www.brandsoftheworld.com
adflip [read review]
Archive of print ads from the '40s to the present day in a variety of categories.
www.adflip.com
Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights From the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress [read review]
Presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html
EphemeraNow.com [read review]
Showcases advertising and illustration art of mid-century America.
www.ephemeranow.com
19th Century Advertising [read review]
Offers a taste of the advertisements found in the pages of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1872.
advertising.harpweek.com
Museum of Public Relations
Provides retrospectives for major figures in the history of public relations.
www.prmuseum.com
History of Advertising Trust Archive
Established in the U.K. in 1974 by a small group of individuals who believed that the best of U.K. advertising should be preserved for posterity.
www.hatads.org.uk
National Signs of the Times Museum
Virtual exhibition designed to inform and educate about the history of the sign industry and its contribution to commerce and the American landscape.
www.signmuseum.com
Super Marketing: Ads From the Comic Books
Featuring a gallery of the best, weirdest, and stupidest ads from the Golden and Silver Ages of comics.
www.steveconley.com/supermarketing.htm
Ad*Access
Image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed mainly in U.S. newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
Offers a large archive of images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa
Toyadz.com [read review]
A collection of vintage toy ads from the '60s to the '80s.
www.toyadz.com
Oddee.com: 12 Crazy Old Ads
A collection of misogynistic, shocking, or just plain crazy ads of bygone days. The best one: "More doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette!"
oddee.com/item_92625.aspx
Advertising, Marketing, and Commercial Imagery Collections
Features the nationally recognized collections for the study of advertising and marketing from the National Museum of American History's Archives Center.
americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d-7.htm
Truth in Advertising
A collection of vintage cigarette advertisements from the age of innocence.
www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History
Part of the special collections library at Duke University, the center promotes understanding of the social, cultural, and historical impact of advertising, marketing, and sales.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/hartman
Branding of Polaroid, 1957-1977 [read review]
How Polaroid rose up to beat Kodak at the point of purchase.
giam.typepad.com/the_branding_of_polaroid_
Advertising Age: The Advertising Century
Lists the 20th century's top 100 campaigns and top 10 jingles, slogans, and icons.
www.adage.com/century
Ad Graveyard, The
Archive of advertisements that didn't quite make it or were pulled because they were easily misconstrued, or just plain offensive.
www.zeldman.com/adgraveyard
Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918 :::
Online exhibition of over 450 print advertisements published in local magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets from 1867 to 1918.
content.lib.washington.edu/advertweb/index.html

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