History 490 Websites
Sites that may have sources you can select for your primary source paper.
Ads on Youtube
I can’t tell you exactly what
search terms to use, but I know there are a lot of historic TV ads that have
been posted on Youtube.
Jim Crow paraphanalia
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/menu.htm
Emergence of
Advertising in
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
A collaborative effort between the
Harper’s Advertising (19th century)
http://advertising.harpweek.com/
Harper’s Weekly was the leading illustrated American periodical between 1857 and 1872. This site allows all users who register free access to an online archive of 40,000 advertisements that appeared in Harper’s Weekly. Without registering, visitors have access to 64 ads divided into 11 categories, such as cartoons, endorsements, foreign travel, and insurance. Two of the most compelling categories are “Civil War products,” featuring ads for metallic artificial legs and bulletproof vests and “consumer goods,” including advertisements for appliances, packaged goods, and pest killers. Although the ads include text and images, a 100-word introduction provides the only historical context for the advertisements on this site. For those studying 19th-century advertising and consumer culture, the site will be of interest.
Three Centuries
of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html
Items are from the
Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
This well-developed, easily navigated site presents images
and database information for more than 7,000 advertisements printed primarily
in the
Advertising Archives
http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/
British site that features a huge database of British and American advertisements. Must register (free) to use.
Tobacco Advertising Archives
http://www.tobacco.org/ads/?tdo_code=pollay_ads
I suggest searching the Pollay collection, and entering years you are interested in for the search term: date range in order to bring up a collection of cigarette ads.
A Collection
of Vintage Cigarette Advertisements
– 1940s and 1950s
http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html
Not a Cough in a Carload
http://lane.stanford.edu/tobacco/index.html
Stanford School of Medicine online exhibit of cigarette advertisements from the 1920s through 1950s.
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
Many primary sources. I
recommend browsing by subject index. There are sources listed under the
subject: Advertising.
Women Working
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
Browse the
topic “Consumerism” to find sources.
Old Radio Commercials
http://www.old-time.com/commercials/
http://www.earthstation1.com/radio.html#Commercials
http://www.lib.umd.edu/LAB/AUDIO/soundbites.html
A sample of 13 audio files of radio commercials from the late 1950s through the early 1960s—part of the Radio Advertising Bureau Collection. This is part of the larger collection of 850 discs, containing approximately 70 hours of material, that have been remastered. The Bureau, a national trade organization, was formed in 1950 (as the Broadcast Advertisers Bureau) to promote radio as a medium for advertisers. The samples—available in two formats, .WAV and .AIFF—include ads for toothpaste, cold medicine, soft drinks, gasoline, beer, cigarettes, cookies, automobiles, dog food, deodorant, and pimple cream. Useful for those studying consumer culture and the use of pop music and radio in advertising.
Political TV Ads
http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/
Offers 183 television commercials used since 1952 to sell presidential candidates to the American public and an annotated guide to 21 websites created for the 1996 and 2000 elections. Ads from each election are accessible by year as well as by common themes and strategies used over the years, such as ’Looking Presidential,’ ’Attack Ads,’ ’Family Man,’ and ’Real People.’
Adflip
Adflip is an archive of more than 6,000 print advertisements published from 1940 to the present. You can look around as a guest, but must pay to subscribe and get the full search.