Marketing and Advertising History in the Yahoo! Directory

19th Century Advertising [read review]
Offers a taste of the advertisements found in the pages of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1872.
advertising.harpweek.com
Ad Graveyard, The
Archive of advertisements that didn't quite make it or were pulled because they were easily misconstrued, or just plain offensive.
www.zeldman.com/adgraveyard
Ad*Access
Image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed mainly in U.S. newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess
adflip [read review]
Archive of print ads from the '40s to the present day in a variety of categories.
www.adflip.com
Advertising Age: The Advertising Century
Lists the 20th century's top 100 campaigns and top 10 jingles, slogans, and icons.
www.adage.com/century
Advertising of Installment Plans
Looks at how during the 1920s, businesses increasingly utilized advertising as a method not only to sell their products, but also as a means to convince the American public to buy on installments.
etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH37/Murphy.html
Advertising, Marketing, and Commercial Imagery Collections
Features the nationally recognized collections for the study of advertising and marketing from the National Museum of American History's Archives Center.
americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d-7.htm
Best Brands of the World
Browse a large collection of logos and brands in vector format. Enables designers to access vector forms of well-known logos for use in presentations, given the permission of the copyright owner.
www.brandsoftheworld.com
Branding of Polaroid, 1957-1977 [read review]
How Polaroid rose up to beat Kodak at the point of purchase.
giam.typepad.com/the_branding_of_polaroid_
Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918 :::
Online exhibition of over 450 print advertisements published in local magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets from 1867 to 1918.
content.lib.washington.edu/advertweb/index.html
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
Offers a large archive of images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa
EphemeraNow.com [read review]
Showcases advertising and illustration art of mid-century America.
www.ephemeranow.com
Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights From the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress [read review]
Presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History
Part of the special collections library at Duke University, the center promotes understanding of the social, cultural, and historical impact of advertising, marketing, and sales.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/hartman
History Channel: Advertising
Article tracing the development of advertising as we know it today from the last quarter of the 19th century.
historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=34737
History of Advertising Trust Archive
Established in the U.K. in 1974 by a small group of individuals who believed that the best of U.K. advertising should be preserved for posterity.
www.hatads.org.uk
Medicine and Madison Avenue [read review]
Explores the relationship between modern medicine and modern advertising with examples of over 600 health-related advertisements from the 1910s to the 1950s.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma
Museum of Public Relations
Provides retrospectives for major figures in the history of public relations.
www.prmuseum.com
National Mail Order Association: 20 Winning Letters
Portfolio of winning sales letters circulated by Prentice-Hall, Inc. in 1942.
www.nmoa.org/Museum/letters
National Signs of the Times Museum
Virtual exhibition designed to inform and educate about the history of the sign industry and its contribution to commerce and the American landscape.
www.signmuseum.com
Oddee.com: 12 Crazy Old Ads
A collection of misogynistic, shocking, or just plain crazy ads of bygone days. The best one: "More doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette!"
oddee.com/item_92625.aspx
Super Marketing: Ads From the Comic Books
Featuring a gallery of the best, weirdest, and stupidest ads from the Golden and Silver Ages of comics.
www.steveconley.com/supermarketing.htm
Toyadz.com [read review]
A collection of vintage toy ads from the '60s to the '80s.
www.toyadz.com
Truth in Advertising
A collection of vintage cigarette advertisements from the age of innocence.
www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html