Advertising
Primary Sources at Illinois
- Advertising Council ArchivesArchives includes over 165 cubic feet of information, in a variety of print, photographic, audio, and audiovisual media, documenting seven decades of public service advertising history.
- D'Arcy Advertising Collection IndexLocated in the Communications Library, this is a collection of almost 1 million original advertisements published between 1890 and 1970, and donated by the D'Arcy, MacManus & Masius advertising agency.
- Woodward Advertising CollectionSimilar to the D'Arcy Collection, but much more comprehensive with over 4 million ads from the late 1800's through the 1980's. It is currently held in the Oak St. Storage facility, and is available for access in the Oak St. Reading Room.
Open Access Collections
- AdRespectAdRespect promotes advertising that respects diversity, gender identity/expression, and sexual orientation for a more accepting society and better business results. Features collections and analysis.
- Ads of the WorldAds of the World is the world’s largest advertising archive, featuring creative work from across the globe. Users can filter by medium, country, or industry.
- The Advertising ArchivesHistorical print and TV advertisements, magazine covers, cinema posters, comics, postcards, cigarette cards, and more. Sign in for access to larger images.
- Canadian Mail Order CatalogsDigitized catalogs from Canada. Users may perform a keyword search, or browse by publication.
- Duke University CollectionsDuke's vast advertising collections, including Ad*Access, AdViews, John E. Brennan Outdoor Advertising Survey Reports, Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920, JWT Newspetters, Medicine and Madison Avenue, Ourdoor Advertising Association of American Slide Library 1891-1994, Outdoor Advertising Association of America Archives 1885-1990s, John Paver Papers, and R.C. Maxwell Company records.
- Early Advertising of the West: 1867-1918Over 450 print advertisements published in local magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets from 1867 to 1918. The collection is categorized into thematic groups and features advertisements about health care and hygiene products, liquor, tobacco, machinery, manufacturing, transportation, fashion, food and household goods and local tourism.
- The Gender Ads ProjectAdvertising images focusing on gender content and analysis. Browse by female and male advertisements, body parts, gender roles, and more.
- Medicine and Madison AvenueThis collection explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or "Madison Avenue," as the latter is colloquially termed.
- Sears ArchivesThe Sears Archive tells the story of the founding of Sears and the Sears chronology is an up-to-date primer of Sears milestones and events. Both sections span from 1886 to today.
Cinema Studies
- Academy CollectionThe world's largest film related collection, including photographs, posters, costumes, props, and more.
Communications
Communications
Licensed Collections and Best Bets:
- Associated Press (AP) Collections OnlineFeatures varied treasures of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive available to libraries worldwide. Exploring the history and back story of the venerable Associated Press—decades' worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more
- Broadcasting America: the Rise of Mass Media and CommunicationsBroadcasting America contains a wealth of visual content, from product and publicity photographs, to advertisements, technical drawings, maps, information graphics, and more. Galleries have been curated to showcase highlights in advertising and technical drawings, as well as selected images from the extensive RCA Photographs and RCA News and Information Department Photographs collections. Further visual content can be found in the View All gallery, such as maps and photographs belonging to other archival collections.
Primary Sources at Illinois
- James B. Reston PapersJames Barrett "Scotty" Reston (1909-95) papers include correspondence, publications, manuscripts, memoranda, reports, speeches, interview transcripts, and photographs relating to Reston's career with the Associated Press (1934-39) and with The New York Times (1939-89) as a reporter (1939-89), chief Washington correspondent (1953-64), associate editor (1964-68), executive editor (1968-69), vice president (1969-74), and columnist (1974-89). Reston won the Pulitzer Prize twice, in 1945 and in 1957.
Open access collections:
- American RhetoricFeatures a growing collection of text, audio, and video versions of over 5,000 speeches. The site provides access to "public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events." Includes sections for Christian rhetoric, "Top 100 Speeches," "Rhetorical Figures in Sound," "Rhetoric of 9-11," and more. Notable is the selection of speeches from movies, arranged alphabetically by title. Not all speeches have accompanying videos. Site supported by advertising, and maintained by a speech communication professor.
- Museum of Broadcast CommunicationsThe archive includes more than 8,500 digitized television shows, radio programs, and photos.
- American Archive of Public BroadcastingThe American Archive of Public Broadcasting contains more than 50,000 hours of digitized public broadcasting programs and original materials.
- WGBH Open VaultProvides online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. The ever-expanding site contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning. Users may search or browse by series.
Photojournalism
Licensed Collections and Best Bets:
- Picture Post Historical ArchiveThe Picture Post Historical Archive comprises the complete run of the Picture Post from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957—all digitized from originals. The Picture Post's innovative use of photojournalism captured the imagination of the British public, with readership at its peak estimated at eighty percent of the population.
Open access collections:
- The Briscoe CenterRecognizing the importance of photojournalism to historical interpretation, the Briscoe Center began collecting the archives of major American photojournalists in the early 1990s. This collecting focus accelerated during the past decade; as of 2020, the center preserves over 70 noteworthy photojournalism archives.
- Farm Security Administration-Office of War CollectionThe photographs of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944.
- Jack Bradley Photojournalism CollectionThe Cullom-Davis Library at Bradley University holds over 1,000 images in Special Collections which were donated by Jack Bradley, a retired photographer for the Peoria Journal Star. The images in this online collection are a representative sample of those already digitized; more will be added periodically.
- LIFE Photo ArchiveSearch millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.