Media & Design at UCBA

The Ad*Access Project¸ funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund¸ presents images and database information for over 7¸000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio¸ Television¸ Transportation¸ Beauty and Hygiene¸ and World War II¸ providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.

The Advertising Archives was established in 1990 by Larry and Suzanne Viner and is the largest and most comprehensive resource of its kind in Europe. The collection comprises over 1 million catalogued images, 50¸000 of which are searchable online. This includes press and TV advertising¸ magazine covers¸ cinema posters¸ ephemera¸ and comics and chidren's annuals.

JSTOR, which now has been merged with ArtSTOR, is a digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. It contains a wide range of scholarly journals, newspapers, and image collections from museums around the world.

This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
as of May 2021, 905,746 items digitized from NYPL collections.