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
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
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).
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.
(You will need to get WorldCat books through interlibrary loan - it can take 2 weeks for books to arrive through interlibrary loan).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:
Duke Library - Emergence of Advertising in America (unfortuanetly this collection is from 1850 - 1920)
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 -
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.