David M. Rubenstein
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Midwifing the Rise of Consumerism in Post-War France
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
Ad*Access: An image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Browse our guide for collections related to radio and television advertising.
Adviews: A digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s through the 1980s created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles advertising agency.
ROAD 2.0 (Resource of Outdoor Advertising Descriptions): A portal to more than 30,000 images of outdoor advertisements from five different source collections.
About
The Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in the David M. Rubenstein Library acquires and preserves printed material and collections of textual and multimedia resources and makes them available to researchers around the world. Through these collections and related programming, the Center promotes understanding of the social, cultural, and historical impact of advertising, marketing, and sales.
Announcements
CHARM Call for Papers
The Conference on Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing (CHARM) has issued a call for papers for its May 2019 conference in Ottawa, Canada. Hartman Center collections are ripe for CHARM-ing research projects!
New Digital Project
The JWT Ford Motor Company ads are now digitized and live! Features almost 12,000 ads from 1944 to 2007 created by J. Walter Thompson for Ford Motor Company.
