Wonder

Ad History, Print Paper Space

Delivered October 29, 2019. Contributor: Jennifer P.

Goals

Identify how features/advertisements in the print paper space has changed over the last 100-120 years, by pulling ad archives and old advertisements over time.

Early Findings

Website Vintage Ad Browser offers old advertisements sorted by category. 
 Searching for stationary yielded results of ads from print paper company The American Stationary Company , as well as 400 other vintage ads (whereas searching for 'paper' primarily yields toilet paper ads).
Searching for printing also yielded several pages of results, which include paper printing service ads from Remington. 
 Duke University's library also offers a free, searchable directory of vintage advertising. 
Duke's resource includes over 44,000 textual and multimedia resources within advertising, marketing, and sales.
These ad sources range from the 1910's to the 1980's. 
 Advertising Archives is a website offering ads from mid 19th century until present.
This directory allows users to search by subject matter, and specifically sort by decade, which would allow us to provide you ads that span a range of dates. 
 Ad Flip offers an archive of print ads from the last six decades.
 Ad Flip is categorical, searchable, and sorted by year. 
 

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