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AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials

The Classical String Quartet, 1770-1840

AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials

Deena Stryker Photographs, 1963-1964 and undated

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Advertising and Consumer Culture  (more...)

  • Ad*Access: Images of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
  • adViews: Thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980s.
  • Chinese Filmscript and Advertisement Collection, 1946-1985 (Duke access only): Advertisements and transcripts of Chinese documentary films and newsreels, many from the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. Access to this digital collection requires the DjVu Browser Plug-in by LizardTech.
  • Emergence of Advertising in America: Images of 9,000 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.
  • Images of mainline Protestant children and families in the U.S.: Articles and advertising images of Protestant children and families in the U.S. from Protestant-supported or targeted magazines.
  • Medicine and Madison Avenue: Image of over 600 advertisements and historical documents dated between 1911 and 1958, relating to the creation and influence of health-related advertising.
  • Ration Coupons on the Home Front, 1942-1945: Images of ration coupons, stickers, and certificates for tires, bicycles, typewriters, sugar, shoes, fuel oil, gasoline, and food which were issued by the U.S. Office of Price Administration from 1942-1945.
  • See also: Related Resources

African American History  (more...)

  • African American Women: Images and transcripts form three digital collections: Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson Slave Letters, 1837-1838; Vilet Lester Slave Letter, 1857; and Elizabeth Johnson Harris: Life Story, 1867-1923.
  • Behind the Veil: African Americans Tell About Life in the Jim Crow South: Images and audio clips excerpted from the book, Remembering Jim Crow (New York: New Press/Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies of Duke University : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c2001).
  • Digital Durham: Primary sources documenting the economic, social, cultural, and political history of Durham, N.C., from the 1870s through the 1920s.
  • Michael Francis Blake Photographs: 117 photographs of men, women, and children taken between 1912-1934 by Blake who opened one of the first African-American photography studios in Charleston, S.C.
  • Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice (Duke access only): Digital collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries. Content from the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture at Duke University, as well as several other North American and European libraries.

Art, Literature, and Music  (more...)

Documentary Photography  (more...)

Duke University and Durham History  (more...)

Transcultural Experience  (more...)

Women’s History  (more...)

  • African American Women: Images and transcripts form three digital collections: Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson Slave Letters, 1837-1838; Vilet Lester Slave Letter, 1857; and Elizabeth Johnson Harris: Life Story, 1867-1923.
  • Civil War Women: Images and transcripts form three digital collections: Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers, 1860-1864; Alice Williamson Diary, 1864; and Sarah E. Thompson Papers, 1859-1898.
  • Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: Images and transcripts related to the radical origins of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters: Emma Spaulding Bryant wrote these ten letters to her husband, John Emory Bryant, in the summer of 1873. The letters reveal much about the relationships between husbands and wives in this era, and shed light on women's health issues that were often kept private.
  • Everyday Life and Women in America (Duke access only): Documents the social and cultural forces that shaped the everyday lives of women and men in America from 1800 to 1920. The project comprises images sourced from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University and the New York Public Library.
  • See also: Exhibits

The Sea is History - Moun Kanntè, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians, Dominicans and Cubans have left their homelands since 1960 by sea. They travel in fragile vessels or smugglers’ boats without prearranging authorized entry into another country.  The aim of this exhibit is to raise questions, increase awareness, and encourage informed thought about these people.

On Display: August 18 2009 – October 4 2009
Perkins Gallery




Last published November 20, 2009 7:10:41 AM EST

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