- 19th Century Advertising
 - Offers a taste of the advertisements found in the pages of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1872. - Ad Graveyard, The
- Archive of advertisements that didn't quite make it or were pulled because they were easily misconstrued, or just plain offensive.
- Ad*Access
- Image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed mainly in U.S. newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
- adflip
- Archive of print ads from the '40s to the present day in a variety of categories.
- Advertisements From the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
- Sampling of advertisements that capitalized on the public's interest in the war.
- Advertising Age: The Advertising Century
- Lists the 20th century's top 100 campaigns and top 10 jingles, slogans, and icons.
- Advertising of Installment Plans
- Looks at how during the 1920s, businesses increasingly utilized advertising as a method not only to sell their products, but also as a means to convince the American public to buy on installments.
- Advertising, Marketing, and Commercial Imagery Collections
- Features the nationally recognised collections for the study of advertising and marketing from the National Museum of American History's Archives Centre.
- Best Brands of the World
- Browse a large collection of logos and brands in vector format. Enables designers to access vector forms of well-known logos for use in presentations, given the permission of the copyright owner.
- Branding of Polaroid, 1957-1977
- How Polaroid rose up to beat Kodak at the point of purchase.
- Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
- Offers a large archive of images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.
- EphemeraNow.com
- Showcases advertising and illustration art of mid-century America.
- Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights From the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress
- Presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product.
- Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History
- Part of the special collections library at Duke University, the centre promotes understanding of the social, cultural, and historical impact of advertising, marketing, and sales.
- History Channel: Advertising
- Article tracing the development of advertising as we know it today from the last quarter of the 19th century.
 History of Advertising Trust Archive
- Established in the U.K. in 1974 by a small group of individuals who believed that the best of U.K. advertising should be preserved for posterity.- Medicine and Madison Avenue
- Explores the relationship between modern medicine and modern advertising with examples of over 600 health-related advertisements from the 1910s to the 1950s.
- Museum of Public Relations
- Provides retrospectives for major figures in the history of public relations.
- National Mail Order Association: 20 Winning Letters
- Portfolio of winning sales letters circulated by Prentice-Hall, Inc. in 1942.
- National Signs of the Times Museum
- Virtual exhibition designed to inform and educate about the history of the sign industry and its contribution to commerce and the American landscape.
- Oddee.com: 12 Crazy Old Ads
- A collection of misogynistic, shocking, or just plain crazy ads of bygone days. The best one: "More doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette!"
- Super Marketing: Ads From the Comic Books
- Featuring a gallery of the best, weirdest, and stupidest ads from the Golden and Silver Ages of comics.
- Toyadz.com
- A collection of vintage toy ads from the '60s to the '80s.
- Truth in Advertising
- A collection of vintage cigarette advertisements from the age of innocence.
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