History is systematically collected information about the past. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of humans, families, and societies. Knowledge of history is often said to encompass both knowledge of past events and historical thinking skills.
Traditionally, the study of history has been considered a part of the humanities. However, in modern academia, history is increasingly classified as a social science, especially when chronology is the focus.
History :: Graphic Design
Advertising Collectibles :: Collecting
Economic History :: Economics

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Dayton Advertising Museum - Online museum presenting advertising from Bridgestone, Firestone, and Dayton products.
Meta Description: [ Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire, LLC ]
Marketing History - The Center collects, organizes, and provides access to a vast collection of textual and multimedia resources for the student, scholar, and businessperson.
Philippine-American Wars - Wartime advertising with graphic images show how companies capitalized on the public's interest in the wars and imperial ideology.
Meta Description: [ Jim Zwick's web sites, biography, and how to contact him. ]
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Ad Council Historic Campaigns - Presents a visual history of memorable advertising campaigns.
Ad*Access Project - Provides access to digital images print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957.
Meta Description: [ The Ad*Access Project provides access to digital images of over 7000 print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1957. ]
Adclassix - Features pictures of advertisements from newspapers from the 20th century.
Meta Description: [ Vintage Ads! Thousands of Classic Cars! AdClassix.com is 100 years of archival advertisements from a consumer driven society. Browse and buy from our online gallery. ]
Adflip - Searchable archive of classic automobile and other ads from the 1940's through 1990's. Offers link services to each ad from client's web site.
Meta Description: [ Adflip.com - The world's largest archive of classic print and magazine ads. Search for your favorite slice of advertising pop culture from the 40s through the 90s! ]
Advertising Museum from Ace Novelty Promotional Products - This online museum has advertising of old posters, billboards, magazine and newspaper from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Meta Description: [ Advertising Museum has advertising of old posters, billboards, magazine and newspaper from before the year 1900. ]
Advertising of Installment Plans During the 1920s - Paper examines how American business used advertising in the 1920's to convince consumers to buy on installment.
Coca-Cola Television Advertisements - Collection of historic advertisements donated by the Coca Cola corporation to the Library of Congress. Videos available in RealPlayer, QuickTime, and MPEG formats.
Meta Description: [ Coca-Cola television advertisements from the motion picture archive at the Library of Congress ]
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 - Covering the early history of advertising in the United States, and drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
Ghost Signs - A short history of those fading yet fantastic old advertising images on brick walls and barns sometimes called ghost signs.
Meta Description: [ Ghost Signs, a ]
HarpWeek Presents 19th Century Advertising - Images and articles about advertisements that appeared in Harper's Weekly.
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History of Advertising Trust - Preserves the best of British advertising for posterity. Site contents include an archive of work and current exhibition details.
Meta Description: [ The History of Advertising Trust was established in 1976 to preserve the best of British advertising for posterity. Site contents include an archive of work and current exhibition details. ]
King of Bud: Worlds Largest Budweiser Collection - An interactive, online exhibit of a private collection of advertisements, posters, and various promotional items.
Meta Description: [ KingOfBud- Worlds Largest Budweiser Collection Online Tour ]
Nike Advertisements - The texts of a number of advertisements, compiled by Katie Kleinman.
Meta Description: [ Nike Advertisements - Katie Kleinman - Athens, Bloomington, Ohio University, Multimedia, Katie Miller ]
Old Ads - Features old magazine ads from the 1960's, 70's and 80's.
Meta Description: [ Old advertisements and vintage ads from the 1960's and 1970's ]
Old Advertising from Historic Newspapers - Classified advertising from newspapers, dating from 1700's-1900's. Includes patent medicines, slave sales, lost and found, and real estate.
Philip H. Dougherty Remembered - Tribute to Philip H. Dougherty the Advertising Columnist of the New York Times for over twenty years. Video interviews with peers and samples of radio broadcasts.
Meta Description: [ Web site that marks the tenth anniversary of Philip H. Dougherty's passing away, made by his son Paul. Phillip H. Dougherty worked at The New York Times his entire adult life. He is best remembered for the advertising column which he wrote from 1966 until his death in 1988. ]
The Ephemera Society of America, Inc. - A non-profit organization devoted to furthering the collection, study, and preservation of ephemera, including advertising trade cards and related advertising forms.
The Psychology of Advertising - Essay by Walter D. Scott. First published in The Atlantic Monthly, 1904.
Truth in Advertising - A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco and cigarette advertising.
Meta Description: [ A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco marketing. ]
Vintage Labels: The Lost Art of Travel - A collectors site dedicated to the study and collection of vintage luggage labels from the worlds great hotels, airlines, oceanlines and railways.
Meta Description: [ Vintage labels explores the history of the luggage label and the lost art of travel. The site catalogs and provides a history of luggage labels, picture galleries and collectors guide to this growing field of ephemera collectibles. ]
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