History of Advertising Trust
- Preserves the best of British advertising for posterity. Site contents include an archive of work and current exhibition details.
- http://www.hatads.org.uk/
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.
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html
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.
- http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/index.html
Truth in Advertising
- A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco and cigarette advertising.
- http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html
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.
- http://www.adflip.com
Ghost Signs
- A short history of those fading yet fantastic old advertising images on brick walls and barns sometimes called ghost signs.
- http://www.livinggoldpress.com/ghost.htm
Ad*Access Project
- Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.
- http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
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.
- http://www.postlit.com/phd
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.
- http://www.ephemerasociety.org/
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.
- http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/hartman/
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.
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH37/Murphy.html