Advertising Research Guide

Indexes and displays over 7,000 digitized print advertisements originally published between 1911 and 1955.

Includes public service advertisements/campaigns covering the past 60 years.

Archive of classic print ads searchable by year.

A free digital archive of television commercials from the 1950s to the 1980s, created or collected by the N.Y. advertising agency Benton & Bowles, and viewable in iTunes.

The Library of Congress offers links to 5 different advertising collections.

Several collections of advertisements from major companies. It also contains images of business papers and catalogs some dating back to the 1700's.

Explore over 100K ads by category.