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  • Advertising of Installment Plans During the 1920s - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/eh/eh37/murphy.html
    • Paper examines how American business used advertising in the 1920's to convince consumers to buy on installment.
  • HarpWeek Presents 19th Century Advertising - http://advertising.harpweek.com/
    • Images and articles about advertisements that appeared in Harper's Weekly.
  • Advertising Museum from Ace Novelty Promotional Products - http://www.halcyon.com/donace/museum.htm
    • This online museum has advertising of old posters, billboards, magazine and newspaper from the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • The Ephemera Society of America, Inc. - http://www.ephemerasociety.org/
    • A non-profit organization devoted to furthering the collection, study, and preservation of ephemera, including advertising trade cards and related advertising forms.
  • Philip H. Dougherty Remembered - http://www.postlit.com/phd
    • 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.
  • Ad*Access Project - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
    • Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.
  • Ghost Signs - http://www.livinggoldpress.com/ghost.htm
    • A short history of those fading yet fantastic old advertising images on brick walls and barns sometimes called ghost signs.
  • Adflip - http://www.adflip.com
    • 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.
  • Truth in Advertising - http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html
    • A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco and cigarette advertising.
  • Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/index.html
    • Covering the early history of advertising in the United States, and drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
  • Coca-Cola Television Advertisements - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html
    • Collection of historic advertisements donated by the Coca Cola corporation to the Library of Congress. Videos available in RealPlayer, QuickTime, and MPEG formats.
  • History of Advertising Trust - http://www.hatads.org.uk/
    • 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 - http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/hartman/
    • The Center collects, organizes, and provides access to a vast collection of textual and multimedia resources for the student, scholar, and businessperson.

 
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