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Highlights public service advertising campaigns (PSAs) from 1942 to the present. Includes descriptions of campaigns, images of print ads and video clips of TV commercials

An image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Covers five broad categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II. Click "subject" tab to browse/search by narrow topic, including ethnic groups, famous people, and sports.

Provides access to thousands of historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s.

YouTube collection of early television commercials.

Advertising artwork created by Theodor Seuss Geisel in the 1920s-1950s.

Presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.

Presents images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines. These ads illustrate the variety and evolution of marketing images from the 1910s through the 1950s.

Images of 1000 trade cards, representing the full range of products and businesses advertised through this medium from the 1870s through the 1890s.

"A collection of small, colorfully illustrated advertising cards touting a particular medicine and its many cures. The illustrations often have little to do with any of the ailments purported to be cured. They were pure advertising and very collectible."

Tobacco print ads, outdoor ads, point-of-sale and direct marketing materials dating back to the early 1900s, including some materials which may not have been published or publicly displayed.

More than 30000 images related to outdoor advertising from the twentieth century. Browse or search by company, product, date, place, subject, placement company, tone or medium.

Material shows some of the more important technologies, companies, and applications in computing from 1948 to 1988. Browse by company name, decade, application or category.

Vintage ads from comic books, CD-Roms, websites, APIs, user submissions, book/ magazine/comic book scans, and more.