All Things Visual » American http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc Communiqués from the Visual Resources Center, Department of Art History, The University of Chicago Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:55:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Vintage Television Commercials on iTunes U http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/07/24/vintage-television-commercials-on-itunes-u/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/07/24/vintage-television-commercials-on-itunes-u/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:13:04 +0000 arybin http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/?p=684 AdViews

More than 1,500 historic American television commercials from the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in the Duke University Special Collections Library are now available on iTunes U. This collection is called AdViews. Videos are free to download, and can be viewed at the computer or on video-capable iPods.

Most of the 1,500 currently available videos date from the 1950s and 1960s. A keyword search for “coffee” brings up eight albums, including a Yuban Coffee ablum with more than seventy commercials.

The total collection comprises 12,000 commercials and librarians at Duke hope to finish digitization by the end of 2009. Click here for more information.

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ARTstor is pleased to announce that 2,000 images from the Library of Congress “Eyes of the Nation” collection are now available through the ARTstor Digital Library. This collection provides a pictorial overview of American history and includes prints, posters, maps, manuscript pages, photographs, design, movie stills, and cartoons. Read More

Booker T. Washington, ca. 1895

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