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Graphic Design and related arts.

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Ad*Access

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

"The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database 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 coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University."

Author: Duke University, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library (special-collections@duke.edu)

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Marketing & Advertising

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Graphic Arts

Arts & Humanities--History--North America

Beautiful Birds

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology/

"'Beautiful Birds' traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques - from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography - during that period. The exhibition includes books from Cornell Library's Hill Ornithology Collection and art works on loan from the personal collection of benefactors Kenneth E. and Dorothy V. Hill." The site features an online exhibit and timeline, along with biographies of the artists. A bibliography and a guide to Cornell's ornithological collections are also included.

Author: Cornell University Library - Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (jfc13@cornell.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Graphic Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Science & Technology--Life Sciences--Zoology--Birds

Keywords: ornithology; birds

By the People, for the People: Posters of the WPA

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html

This site contains a collection of over 900 posters produced by the Work Projects Administration during FDR's New Deal. Topics range from health and safety to World War II.

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Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Graphic Arts

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--20th Century History

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--Wars--World War II

Keywords: Posters; WPA

Emergence of Advertising in America (EAA)

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/

"EAA presents over 9,000 images that illustrate the rise of consumer culture, especially after the American Civil War, and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States. The images are drawn from over a dozen separate collections in the Hartman Center and Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The project organizes the materials into eleven categories. In most of those categories the images shown represent only a portion of a particular collection or series. For EAA we selected representative images, including primarily items or pages that are especially informative and visually interesting."

Author: Duke University, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library (special-collections@duke.edu)

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Marketing & Advertising

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Graphic Arts

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States

Publishing/Graphics Arts Glossary

http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/arts/eyn3.htm

"This glossary contains the technical and business terms from thefields of publishing, photography, computers, graphic design andprinting." The list is an excerpt from the book "Editing Your Newsletter - How to Produce an Effective Publication Using Traditional Tools and Computers," by Mark Beach.

Author: Mark Beach (irv@smartbiz.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Graphic Arts

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts--Photography

Keywords: Photography; Graphic Design; Printing

World War II Poster Collection

http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/

This database contains images and description of World War II era posters promoting the U.S. war effort on topics ranging from material conservation to secrecy. "The Government Publications Department at Northwestern University Library has a very comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945." The database is searchable by keyword, title, date, or agency. You can also look at all the posters arranged by date, title, or topic. Records include a description of the poster--artist, title, publisher, date, notes, subjects, etc.--and thumbnail and full-screen views of each poster.

Author: Government Publications Department, Northwestern University Library (govpubs@nwu.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Graphic Arts

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--Wars--World War II

Keywords: graphic art; posters

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