Historical Collections
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Smithsonian
Photo Database - By
Smithsonian Printing & Photographic Services; 640 X 480 GIF images of
their collections, covering topics ranging from Art, to Air and Space,
Science, Nature, Technology, History, and People-Places
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Ad Access - Over 7,000
advertisements that appeared in US newspapers and magazines between 1911
and 1955. The ads cover beauty and hygiene, radio, television,
transportation, and World War II. Each category has a brief history and
can be browsed by topics and year. Searchable by keyword. From the John W.
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History and the Rare
Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke
University.
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Adflip
- archive of classic print ads, collection of
print advertisements dating back to the 1940s
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Emergence of Advertising in America - over 9,000 images relating to the early history of
advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, include
cookbooks, photographs of billboards, print advertisements, trade cards,
calendars, almanacs, and leaflets for a multitude of products.
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Medicine
and Madison Avenue - a
database of over 600 health-related ads from newspapers and magazines
which appeared between 1911 and 1958. There are also 35 selected
historical documents about health-related advertisements.
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Official
Land Patent Records Site, The - By the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) General Land
Office; over two million Federal land title records, issued between 1820
and 1908, for twelve Eastern Public Land States
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Speech and
Transcript Center - A
collection of links to speeches and testimony from government and business
leaders. Links include speeches from the United Nations, the European
Union, NATO, the World Trade Association; Links of historical interest
include speeches by Lyndon Baines Johnson; John, Robert, and Edward
Kennedy; and Winston Churchill, as well as the inaugural addresses of the
U.S. presidents (1789-1989). By Gary Price, George Washington
University
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