Finding Images

The Ad*Access digital collection consists of over 7,000 print advertisements ranging in date from 1911- 1955.

A searchable database of assets--print materials, videos, and more--from the Ad Council, a nonprofit that distributes public service announcements. Browsable by issue areas, format, target audience, and more.

A curated selection of recent advertising campaigns. Users can also create watch categories to receive notifications of new campaigns in specific interest areas.

A collection of European and American advertisements going back to the 19th century. Includes magazine images, stills of TV advertisements, postcards, mail order catalogues, and more. Browsable by decade.

The Early Advertising of the West collection consists of over 450 print advertisements published in Pacific Northwest regional magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets from 1867 to 1918.

Over 3,300 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.

This collection explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or "Madison Avenue," as the latter is colloquially termed. It presents images and information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines.

Images of a wide variety of advertising formats from the NYPL's collections, including cards, menus, posters, and more.

Images and issues from the Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs, available through the Internet Archive.

Over 60,000 images of tobacco advertisements from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

This collection includes posters from the nineteenth century to the present day from the United States and other countries. It includes styles such as Art Nouveau, Russian Constructivism, Art Deco, Bauhaus, International Typographic Style, and Psychedelic. Subjects include travel, advertising, cultural events, sports, and more.

A digitized volume of a book of French masters of poster art, featuring 260 images.

A collection of political poster images, with an emphasis on the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia/Soviet Union, and France--though 80 countries are included.

A collection of poster images primarily from the 1960s and later, covering movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Women, and Youth/Student Protest.

The V&A's collection of more than 26,000 posters, including examples by the masters of the medium – Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cassandre, McKnight Kauffer – and the work of anonymous activists.

This collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA (Works Progress Administration). The posters were designed to publicize national parks, exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs.