Advertising Stuff Here's what I found.
  • From AdAge.com: the top 100 Campaigns from their "advertising century" section.
  • The Ad*Access Project: containing images and database information for over 7,000 ads printer in the US and Canada between 1911-1955.
  • The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 - EAA presents over 9,000 images and database entries.
  • Harper's Weekly 19th Century Advertising: a showcase of about 40,000 ads that have appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine between 1857 and 1871.
  • KnowThis?.com: Marketing Virtual Library with tonnes (note we are metric) of links! I'm lazy, or I would actually go and filter all of these for you.
  • D'Arcy Collection: from the University of Illinois, here is a collection of over 2 million original ads published between 1890 and 1970! Watch out Dorethy, you ain't in Kansas anymore!
  • The History of Advertising Trust: see the pics on the left of this site? Click on the milk one to continue on what you were telling me about the 'Got Milk?' campaign. Interesting.
  • Clio Awards: awards are given out to the advertising and design industry. You can search for past winners in their archives.
  • adforum: this is a bonus site. It contains resources for the advertising industry.

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