Guide to primary sources

7,000+ U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories: Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda (1911-1955).

450+ print advertisements from local magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets that shed light on the history and social conditions of the Pacific Northwest.

3,300+ advertising items and publications that illustrate the rise of consumer culture and a professional advertising industry in the U.S.

Contains 2,500+ current print ads. Browse by gender, role, objects, or theme.

30+ years of the best print campaigns, TV commercials, and digital designs from around the world.

Hundreds of digitized magazines from the 20th and 21st centuries. Includes Life Magazine, Black World/Negro Digest, and New Scientist, among others.

600+ health-related advertisements that ran from the 1910s to the 1950s. Includes products like cough and cold remedies, laxatives and indigestion aids, and vitamins and tonics.

Prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more from the NYPL archives.