Ad*Access
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in US and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II. Users can either browse or search the database, or use the Timeline for a chronology of major events and facts in international affairs, United States government and politics, companies, inventions, discoveries and technology; humanities and the arts, and entertainment and sports. Other advertising historical sites:
- Ad Council's Historic Campaigns
- Advertising Icon Museum
- Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA)
- Harpers Weekly 19th Century Advertising
- MBC's Media Archives - contains over: 15,000 Television Programs; 4,000 Radio Programs; and 12,000 Television Commercials.
Coverage: 1915-1955
Subject(s):
Business, Economics & Industry
Publicly Available Resources
Related Databases
ABI/INFORM Global
Art Index Retrospective
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
