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Prepared for Brian R. | Delivered October 29, 2019
Ad History, Print Paper Space
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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.
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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
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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.
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Advertising Archives
is a website offering ads from mid 19th century until present.
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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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