This web page is designed to help you find resources for your class project on food packaging images.  There are few "easy" resources for this project, so I would encourage you to start early, try a variety of different strategies, and ask for help!

Books will likely give you both images and background information.  Articles are more likely to just provide background information.  Web resources are likely to give images without as much quality background information. 

3 Catalog Options

• Start with the OSU Libraries Catalog

Some suggested searches:

Using the keyword search option, try advertising food images; or try food packaging cultural; or try the name of a popular advertising figure such as Aunt Jemima

Using the subject search option, try advertising food; try food packaging; try packaging history

• If you can't find anything in our catalog, try the regional (Oregon and Washington universities) catalog Summit

Some suggested searches: 

Using the subject search option, try the subject searches listed above, also scan through the list of related subjects to see if something more specific might be helpful.

(Summit books normally take 3 business days to arrive).

• If you still haven't found anything, try the WorldCat catalog (searches libraries around the world - see WorldCat tips module on the right)

Some suggested searches:

Under the advanced search option, try the subject search option, and search for advertising food united states history

Under the keyword (main search box) option, try food packaging images

Or try any of the searches suggested above. 

To find cultural food packaging images on the web, try searching for a specific character (such as Aunt Jemima) rather than broad topics like food packaging.

Some places to look:

Google Image Search

Wikimedia Commons

Flickr

Duke Library - Emergence of Advertising in America (unfortuanetly this collection is from 1850 - 1920) 

• Librarian: Hannah Rempel
• Office Location: Valley Library, 4th Floor
• Office Hours: by appointment
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  Phone: 541-737-9902
  Email: hannah.rempel@oregonstate.edu

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2 Database Options 

Academic Search Premier - while you may find some information using the broader search terms of advertising food or food packaging or "food packaging" and marketing and design, you will probably have more success if you search for specific ideas or characters, such as Aunt Jemima

Art Index - try some of the more food specific searches in this database, such as food packaging cultural, also try specific names (again Aunt Jemima)

Several popular magazines that may have cultural food advertising images in them are -

Life Magazine

Saturday Evening Post

Good Housekeeping

Better Homes & Gardens

Pay close attention to the catalog listing to determine where the magazine is located.  Depending on how old the magazine is, it may either be in compact shelving, on microfilm/fiche or on the regular shelves.  If you need help using the microfilm/fiche readers, which are located on the 3rd floor of the library, stop by the archives desk (also on the 3rd floor, near the microfilm readers) and ask for help. 

• Start by registering for an account, the benefits of this are that you will be able to request something through interlibrary loan right from within WorldCat if you find something you like
• Use the Advanced Search feature (right below the main search box) to do more specific subject, author, or specific year searches
• If you find something you like, use the "Services from Oregon State University Libraries" options listed beneath the box containing the description of the book.  If OSU Libraries or the Summit catalog has the book, you won't be able to place an interlibrary loan, so check those places first (using the links).  Once you have done that, then click on the "interlibrary loan (ILL) request" link. 

• Step 1: Identify articles of interest using the article databases earlier.
• Step 2: Check the E-Journals list to see if the journal you need is available online.
• Step 3: If the journal is not online, find the call number for the journal(s) in which the article is found. (Use the library catalog for this step.)
• Step 4: Go to the floor of the library on which these particular call numbers can be found.