Advertising of Installment Plans During the 1920s
Paper examines how American business used advertising in the 1920's to convince consumers to buy on installment.

John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
The Center collects, organizes, and provides access to a vast collection of textual and multimedia resources for the student, scholar, and businessperson.

HarpWeek Presents 19th Century Advertising
Images and articles about advertisements that appeared in Harper's Weekly.

History of Advertising Trust
Preserves the best of British advertising for posterity. Site contents include an archive of work and current exhibition details.

Advertising Museum from Ace Novelty Promotional Products
This online museum has advertising of old posters, billboards, magazine and newspaper from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Ephemera Society of America, Inc.
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
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
Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.

Ghost Signs
A short history of those fading yet fantastic old advertising images on brick walls and barns sometimes called ghost signs.

Adflip
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
A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco and cigarette advertising.

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
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
Collection of historic advertisements donated by the Coca Cola corporation to the Library of Congress. Videos available in RealPlayer, QuickTime, and MPEG formats.

Advertisements from the Spanish-American & Philippine-American Wars
Wartime advertising with graphic images show how companies capitalized on the public's interest in the wars and imperial ideology.

King of Bud: Worlds Largest Budweiser Collection
An interactive, online exhibit of a private collection of advertisements, posters, and various promotional items.

The Psychology of Advertising
Essay by Walter D. Scott. First published in The Atlantic Monthly, 1904.

Ad Council Historic Campaigns
Presents a visual history of memorable advertising campaigns.

Bridgestone/Firestone & Dayton Advertising Museum
Online museum presenting advertising from Bridgestone, Firestone, and Dayton products.

Vintage Labels: The Lost Art of Travel
A collectors site dedicated to the study and collection of vintage luggage labels from the worlds great hotels, airlines, oceanlines and railways.

Old Advertising from Historic Newspapers
Classified advertising from newspapers, dating from 1700's-1900's. Includes patent medicines, slave sales, lost and found, and real estate.