CONSUMER CULTURE LINKS

On Line Advertisements (Historical and Contemporary) and other related primary sources
Ad*Access  Over 7000 advertisements printed in the U.S. and Canada between 1911 and 1955
AdLand  Hundreds of commercial ads
American Advertising Museum
American Memory:  Library of Congress On-Line Collection of Primary Sources
Coca-Cola TV Advertising Campaigns
The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929  Library of Congress exhibit with lots of documents
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls  Thousands of American and British dime novels
Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920  (Duke's John Hartman Center) Primary Sources
Hagley Museum and Library  Archival collection (not on-line).
Internet Moving Images Archive
Legal Tobacco Documents Library  38 million pages of tobacco industry documents
Living Room Candidate: A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2000
Mark Twain in His Times  Based on Mark Twain's life and work.  Includes documents on the marketing of his work
Medicine and Madison Avenue  Website devoted to the relationship between medicine and consumerism
New York Times  Past issues available on line through Murray Library
Roland Marchand's File Cabinet  Collection of more than 2000 advertisements
SIRIS Image Gallery  Has over 1500 soap advertisements
WPA (Works Progress Administration) Posters
Women Working, 1870-1930  Pamphlets, Photographs, Catalogs and Books about Women in the Workplace

Magazines and Periodicals Devoted to Aspects of Consumer Culture and Economy
AdBusters  Also see the print magazine (Back issues in Murray Library)
AdWeek Magazine
Consumer Reports Magazine
Forbes Magazine
Godey's Lady Book On-Line  Popular 19th century publication for middle and upper class women  (Only 1850 issue)
Godey's Lady Book On-Line  See above.  (Only 1855 issue and partial 1852 issue)
Left Business Observer Magazine
Making the McIntosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley  History of the McIntosh computer and its marketing
Microsoft
Morning News Beat.Com  Retail news with a point of view
OnLine Newspapers.Com
Rolling Stone Magazine
Wall Street Journal

American Corporations (and their products)
Amazon.Com
Barbie Doll Home Page (Matel)
Ford Motors
General Motors
McDonalds. Com
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Proctor and Gamble
Proctor and Gamble's Website on "Being a Girl"
Starbucks.Com
Walmart.Com

Christian Consumerism
Big Idea Productions (Veggie Tales!)
Christian Booksellers Association
Christian Contemporary Music Magazine.Com
Christian Retailing.Com
Family Christian Stores
Hour of Power  Robert Schuler's ministry from the "Crystal Cathedral" in Garden Grove, California
Left Behind.Com  The most successful Christian novel series ever published
Material History of American Religion Website
Willow Creek Community Church  The first consumer-driven "megachurch"
Yahoo Christian T-Shirt Links

Centers, Institutes, and Government Agencies (and other research)
Association for Consumer Research
Bureau of Economic Analysis  Comprehensive US economic data from the US Dept. of Commerce
Center for a New American Dream
Consumer Information Center
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Economic Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Plain Vanilla Shell.Com  Comprehensive research on the retail business

Website Criticism of Consumerism
AdBusters  Also see the print magazine (Back issues in Murray Library)
Anti-McDonalds Essays and Links
Anti-Walmart.Com
Dead Malls.Com
The Frugal Corner
GenderAds.Com
The Simple Living Network
Sprawl-Busters.Com
Stay Free Magazine  A magazine dealing with consumer and other issues in Brooklyn, NY

Malls and Other Retailing
Dead Malls.Com
Groceteria.Com  Website devoted to the history of the grocery store
The Hall of Malls  Website devoted to American malls
Mall of America (Minneapolis)  Supposedly the world's largest mall
Malls.Com
Malls-USA.Com

Fashion
Gap Online
Fashion.Net
Fashion and Costume History Website
Style.Com  Vogue magazine on-line

Works of Economists
Works of Adam Smith
Works of Karl Marx
Writings of Simon Patten  Some on-line writings of the late 19th century political economist
Writings of Thorstein Veblen  Some writings on-line


Miscellaneous Sites
Chinese Advertising Website
Christmas Around the World  (Ruseel Belk's Website at University of Utah)
Inconspicuous Consumption  Weird dimensions of consumer culture
Lost Museum  Recreation of P.T. Barnum's American Museum
Museum of Weird Consumer Culture
SubliminalWorld.Com  Website devoted to subliminal advertising
Texas Advertising  The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Advertising Web Page
Vintageblues.Com  A website devoted to the history of fashion
World Food Habits Bibliography



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