Images and Image Collections

Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.

VADS is the online resource for visual arts that is particularly strong in the areas of applied arts and design. It has provided services to the academic community for 12 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images.

The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United States, especially the New York City area, and Florida. All images in this collection are in the public domain.

The not for profit foundation the International Advertising & Design DataBase was founded in 2014 in the Netherlands as an hommage to Dr Sachs and carries on where he, due to the circumstances of the times, had to stop.

It is the goal of the Foundation to publicize as much information as possible through the IADDB and to ask the public to actively participate by adding images, names, dates and all other kinds of information.

As a first project the IADDB will put on line a number of scarce advertising and design magazines. Than a wealth of posters and other advertising material will follow as well as an index to artists names, biographies and signatures.