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History of Advertising and Public Relations

Your advertising history museum is filled with vintage print ads, TV commercials and advertising icons.

19th Century Advertising History

Harper's Weekly has compiled a database of advertisements that ran in their magazine from 1857-1872.

Ad Access

This library contains over 7,000 advertisements found in newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

Broadcast Communications Museum

This site offers an encyclopedia of television as well as the history of radio. You'll even find newscasts and public programs available for viewing.

Emergence of Advertising in America

EAA is an online image database of over 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920.

Museum of Television and Radio

This non-profit organization includes more than 100,000 programs. Their collection covers everything from comedy shows on television to commercials.

Super Marketing: Ads from Comic Books

You tried to forget about Sea Monkeys and Silly Putty. But this site has all those comic book ads in print. If only the products lasted as long.

TV Land's Retromercials

Visit classic commercials like Raid, Heinz Pickles and the Tootsie Roll Love Bug.
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