The Center collects, organizes, and provides access to a vast collection of textual and multimedia resources for the student, scholar, and businessperson.
By preserving historical records and archives and sponsoring related programs, the John W. Hartman Center contributes to the study of sales, advertising and marketing in society. The Hartman Center holds an extensive collection of over 3,000,000 items correspondence, publications, advertisements, photographs, slides, films, books and serials that document the history of advertising, sales, and marketing over the past two centuries. In addition to the J. Walter Thompson Company Archives, the most comprehensive historical record of any advertising agency, the Center contains the collections of other key companies and individuals in the dynamic fields of advertising, marketing and sales.
Images and articles about advertisements that appeared in Harper's Weekly.
Harpers Weekly was the leading illustrated American periodical during the 1857 1872 period. Its circulation exceeded 100,000 on a regular basis and reached 300,000 at times during the Civil War and its 1871 campaign to defeat Boss William M. Tweed in New York City. It is best known for the political cartoons of Thomas Nast, the illustrations of Winslow Homer, and the wood engravings of photographs by Mathew Brady. In 1870, an annual subscription cost $4.00. An advertisement cost $1.50 per line per insertion for an inside page and $2.00 for an outside page. The newspaper had 16 tabloid size pages per issue before 1870, and then increased up to 24 pages per issue.
Preserves the best of British advertising for posterity. Site contents include an archive of work and current exhibition details.
HAT was established in 1976 by a small group of individuals who believed that the best of UK advertising should be preserved for posterity. As an educational research trust and a registered UK charity [no. 276194], its initial brief was to encourage and sponsor the study of all aspects of the growth and development of advertising. This was subsequently broadened to include the related fields of marketing, media and public relations.
This online museum has advertising of old posters, billboards, magazine and newspaper from the 19th and 20th centuries.
We are attempting to present an advertising museum with various types of items pictured that are interesting to our viewers to see some of the ideas from the past. As this is a museum there will not be any music or sound effects while you are enjoying your stay in our museum. If you have an old picture of a promotional product or advertising specialty please feel free to send it to us and we will be glad to display it here in the museum along with your name to give you credit for your contribution to our museum.
A non-profit organization devoted to furthering the collection, study, and preservation of ephemera, including advertising trade cards and related advertising forms.
The Ephemera Society of America, Inc. is formed in 1980 to cultivate and encourage interest in ephemera and the history identified with it; to further the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of ephemera by people of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of interest; to promote the personal and institutional collection, preservation, exhibition, and research of ephemeral materials; to serve as a link among collectors, dealers, institutions, and scholars; and to contribute to the cultural life of those who have an interest in our heritage as a nation or a people, both nationally and internationally.
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.
The audio section in this site is made up of radio broadcasts and speeches because it is the most vivid evocation of PHD. For the video section the interviews of advertising people were made for a video shown at an AAF award luncheon on the occasion of PHDs induction to the Advertising Hall Of Fame. The pictures are small samples that link to larger sets. The articles are about PHD, not by him. Happily his words live on in the NYT microfilm collections of most libraries.
Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.
The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment Library 2000 Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke Universitys Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
A short history of those fading yet fantastic old advertising images on brick walls and barns sometimes called ghost signs.
Living Gold Press is located on the edge of the Klamath River in beautiful, sparsely populated far northern California. The sister owned company was formed in 1996 with the goal of publishing non-fiction books with an emphasis on regional topics. Jill Livingston and Kathryn Golden do the majority of the writing, photography, drawing, design, layout, and marketing themselves. They are part of a growing cadre of small publishers committed to quality and independence.
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.
adflip.com is the worlds largest searchable database of classic print ads. We love ads and the pop culture they represent. You can search by category, by decade, even by year. The what are you looking for search box allows you to type in a brand name and even a specific model name. We will not guarantee that you will always get a match, but you may be surprised at what is lurking deep in our archives. We love to hear from adflippers, let us know what you like and especially what you don't like. We are populating our database with new images on a daily basis, so if you can not find it today, it might be there tomorrow. To gain full access to the worlds largest archive of classic print ads become a member today!
