Ad*Access
The Ad*Access Project presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. The site concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, which are preserved in one advertising collection available at Duke University.
American Memory from the Library of Congress: Historical Collections from the National Digital Library
This site offers over 7 million images. The images are on a variety of topics and subject matter, including Daguerreotype photographs, maps, historical documents, Farm Security Administration photographs, sheet music, etc.
ARTstor (UC access only)
Numerous images of fashion design, graphic design, and industrial design.
Bayou Bend Collection
Images of American Decorative Arts.
By the People: for the People: Posters from the WPA 1936-1943
Collection of 908 original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of the New Deal program.
Chipstone Collection Images
Images of Early American furniture, and seventeenth and eighteenth century ceramics.
Cuts & Caps
Ornaments and initials from old specimen books, converted into vector line art. Use in print or digital work.
Design Council Slide Collection
Images of British design and the promotion of design by the UK government from the 1940s to the early 1990s.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
9,000 advertising images from Duke University.
Fashion Plate Collection in Luna Commons
Hand-colored fashion plates from the French periodical La Gazette du Bon Ton
Graphic Arts, Princeton University
Exhibitions, acquisitions, and other highlights from the Graphic Arts Division, Princeton University
Graphic Design in Travel Ephemera
An online gallery of a large personal collection of illustrated ephemera from European, Asian, and American “travel brochures, airline time-tables, ocean liner time-tables, auto road maps, luggage labels, advertising, and graphic design publications.”
History of Advertising Trust
UK advertising industry posters, promotions, brochures, press and magazine proofs and cuttings, direct mail, photographs, transparencies and more.
Magic Posters
A digital collection of early 20th century Magic Posters from the Library of Congress.
Posters American Style (Smithsonian)
This collection of posters, gathered from both private and public collections, ranges from early to modern examples, emphasizing the importance of graphic design, powerful slogans, and the diversity of the American audience. Subjects include political movements, concerts, sporting events, and more.
Printing & Graphics
The New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books
“A Summons to Comradeship”: World War I and II Posters and Postcards
A few hundred high quality images of posters from 1880-1918. These images are in the public domain.
The 19th-Century American Trade Card
Collection from Harvard Libraries
The DAAP Digital Image Teaching Collection (UC access only)
Selected images supporting the DAAP curriculum. Images from Meggs' History of Graphic Design. Cincinnati design images of fashion, industrial, & graphic design
The Swiss Poster Collection
The Carnegie Mellon University collection contains Swiss Posters of the year competition, graphic design and poster art from 1971 to the present.
Urban Archives Database
Libraries digital collection of images pertaining to urban communication. The images have been collected since 2004 through field research by students of urban texts such as graffiti, public art, advertising, signage, and architectural design.
Arts of the Book Collection
A Yale University Library collection