Gosh, summer has gotten away from me. Forgive me for my negligent posting schedule. Anyway, here are a few things I stumbled across in my library-life that you might find fun and interesting: First up, a new digital collection from Duke University Libraries: AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials. Described as “a digital […]
Tag: advertising
Not exactly GOOD advice…
I stumbled across this today at work, an exhibit from the Stanford School of Medicine titled Not a Cough in a Carload: Images from the Tobacco Industry Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Actually, browsing some of the “Images by Theme” is pretty entertaining (if not a bit scary). Check […]
1869: Draw Up An Advertisement
Oh my. Here we are in 2007, thinking we’re all so clever using the internet and newspaper classified ads to find dates and mates, but we’re not. I stumble across a quote from 1869 (yes, 1869!) suggesting that men having trouble finding a wife might want to take out an ad in newspapers. Widely circulated […]