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• Ad*Access Project

  http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/
  Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920

  http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/
  Covering the early history of advertising in the United States, and drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.

• 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.

• HarpWeek Presents 19th Century Advertising

  http://advertising.harpweek.com/
  Images and articles about advertisements that appeared in Harper's Weekly.

• 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/rubenstein/hartman/
  The Center collects, organizes, and provides access to a vast collection of textual and multimedia resources for the student, scholar, and businessperson.

• 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.

• Truth in Advertising

  http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html
  A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco and cigarette advertising.

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