ARS 422 Claire Evangelista April 13, 2006

University Library Homepage: http://library.southalabama.edu

SOUTHcat Catalog -- see the audiovisual tutorials

•Find and bring back one book from the stacks with illustrations about one of these: trademarks, symbols, iconography, logos, brands, commercial art [Hint: Do a "keyword" search using truncation and Boolean operator AND.]

Articles in Print Periodicals

•Find one periodical with advertising or graphic design of interest from the 1940's. Some suggestions: Life magazine; Saturday Evening Post; Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Progressive Architect, Nation, Art Director's Annual, National Geographic, "annual and advertising[keyword search]. [Hint: Do a "Journal Title" search on the catalog to get the call numbers of these magazines. Most are on the 3rd Floor South. ]

Articles, Indexes, Databases --

EBSCO's Academic Search Premier
Expanded Academic ASAP
JSTOR
Periodicals Archive Online

•Find a full-text article from one of these databases discussing the history of a topic of interest to you, such as: tattoos, fantasy art, album covers, pinups, afro-centric art, cartooning, textiles, theatre posters, match covers, hats, purses, shoes, costumes, whatever.

•Find the full-text of this article: Parry, Linda "The Open Display of Textiles as Arranged for the ‘William Morris Exhibition'. " Museum Management and Curatorship 15.4 (1996): 416-17.

Google Advanced Searching--http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

Web Directories and Search Engines

LII- Librarians Internet Index--http://lii.org/

Bubl Link--Search "images" to get image collections--http://bubl.ac.uk/link/types/images.htm

Open Directory--http://dmoz.org/

Digital Librarian--http://www.digital-librarian.com/images.html

Loomia: podcast and videocast search engine--http://www.loomia.com/ [1940s]

Library of Congress/Archives Collections

Library of Congress American Memory Project-http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920-http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ncdhtml/caption.html

Themes for Coca-Cola Advertising 1886-1999-http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colatime3.html

New Deal for the Arts--http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/new_deal_for_the_arts/

Other Collections

Duke University Special Collections--Digitized--http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/digitized/index.html

Ad*Access

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/ Why Advertising?
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/adaccess/browse.html
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/browse.html Medicine and Madison Avenue
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/adaccess/timeline.html Timeline

Ad*Access is a pilot project to make a selection of historical advertisements available for study and research. The project draws on part of a large collection of magazine and newspaper ads within the Duke library's J. Walter Thompson Company Archives. The project includes over 7,000 ads, mainly from U.S. publications dating between 1911 and 1955.

Getty Images--http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx

Corbis Collection--http://pro.corbis.com/

Truth in Advertising--Collection of cigarette advertisements from the 1940s and 1950s.--http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/

Fashion-Era --visual and cultural history of fashion (see Tailleur Fashion Plates)--http://www.fashion-era.com/

Costume Gallery--http://www.costumegallery.com/1940.htm

Miscellaneous Links:

ARTLex Art Dictionary--http://www.artlex.com/

Figure Drawing Factory--http://figuredrawingfactory.info/

NPR story--http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4558477&sourceCode=RSS

 

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