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- COM 1053: Business and Professional Speech (Denney)
COM 1053: Business and Professional Speech (Denney)
A research guide for Professor Denney's class.
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- Magazines & Newspapers
- Advertising Collections: Open Access
- Citing
Google Image Search
- Google Image SearchChange your search settings to find images that are free to use or share:
Advanced Search > Usage Rights > Free to Use or Share
Contemporary Ads
- AdForumProvides access to a gallery of various types of ads (TV, radio, print, interactive, etc.), directories of ad agencies and production companies, and advertising news. The ads date back to 1999 with some older ones. ***For free ad downloads use the code 44RH7A.**
Vintage Ads
- AdClassix.comIncludes over 1,000,000 vintage ads spanning the 20th century.
- Adflip.comAn archive of classic print ads, 1940-2003
- The Advertising ArchivesIncludes advertisements for mostly British and American old adverts, nostalgic illustrations, classic posters and vintage magazines from around the 1900's to current.
- AdViewsA digital collection of thousands of vintage television commercials from the 1950s to the 1980s.
- The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 (Duke University Libraries)Presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States
- Life Magazine on Google BooksA searchable archive of back issues of Life Magazine. Check box to search all issues. 1930s - 1970s.
Finding More Images
Try these sources for images:
- Creative Commons CC0 SearchSearch for free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.
- Flickr CommonsPublic collection of photographs and art works in the Public Domain drawn from museum and archival collections around the world. Click on the "Participating Institutions" link to find works from a particular museum, archive, or library. Filter by CC license to find images with reuse rights.
- PixabayRoyalty free stock photos and video. All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required by Pixabay, but will be required by your Professor.
- UnsplashImages licensed to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use for free. All photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.