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Marketing and Advertising: Finding Advertisements

Ad*Access

The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

Not a Cough in a Carload

'Not a Cough in a Carload' website provides enlargeable images of print and poster advertisements that tell "the story of how, between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, tobacco companies used deceptive and often patently false claims in an effort to reassure the public of the safety of their products".