Library Guides: Communication &amp; Media: Visual Resources

Photojournalism

Photojournalism
This Library Resources for Communication Studies page can help you identify sources related to photojournalism. Some listed sources are fee-based and not available at Clark Library.

PressReader This link opens in a new window
Full text/full color images of today's newspapers and magazines from around the world. 90-day archive.

Today's Front Pages
Offers a snapshot of the front page of over 600 newspapers from around the world.

Advertising

Internet Archive: Television
Contains several collections of TV commercials.
The Advertising Archives
Provides over 100,000 U.S., British, French, and Spanish advertisements dating from mid-19th-century to present. Register to view larger images, save picture searches, and create lightboxes.
John W. Hartman Center Advertising Collections
An extensive online database of over 7,000 print advertisements, over 16,000 outdoor advertisements, and over 240 television commercials from the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, & Marketing History at Duke University.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
Part of the Hartman Center Advertising Collections at Duke University, this collection provides over 3,300 advertising items and publications illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.
Vintage Ad Browser
This site aims to collect vintage ads from a variety of sources, including comic books, CD-ROMs, websites, APIs, books, magazines, and more.
Advertising
This Library Resources for Communication Studies page can help you identify sources for historical advertising; look for the "Historical Online" and "Historical Archives" lists. Some sources listed on this page are fee-based and not available at Clark Library.
Ad*Access
Created by Duke University, Ad*Access provides an online collection of U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda between 1911 and 1955.

Images for Use in Projects

Every Stock Photo
Search engine for free stock photos licensed under Creative Commons, public domain, or special licenses.
Flickr
Link goes to Advanced Search screen where you can limit to photos licensed under Creative Commons.
Google Images
While popular for finding images, be aware that you never know 100% if the images belong to the person who posted them. There are ways to protect yourself from copyright infringement.
Find free-to-use Google Images:
Follow these steps from the Google support pages.
Google Image Search and the Usage Rights Filter Tutorial
Youtube video from the LDSBC Library on how to find images you can legally use in Google.
How to find copyright free images on Google Image Search:
This Search Engine Watch article goes into more detail about using images, and explains some ways to avoid copyrighted images.
Public Domain Sherpa
Portal to collections of pictures in the public domain – collections annotated with copyright guidance.
See Also: "Find Images" resource list
See more options for obtaining images on the Clark Library's Ethical Use of Information guide.

Communication & Media: Visual Resources

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Images for Use in Projects