Link Love: 4/8/2011

  • The Tate Museum in London has put together Archive Journeys—online exhibits exploring the history of the Tate Museum and the art world that helped shape it through the museum’s archives (which were recently made accessible online for the first time).
  • Duke University’s AdViews, a collection of nearly 9,000 digitized vintage television commercials, is now available on the Internet Archive. There are a ton of hilarious and strange ads to explore, including this one, in which kids and their parents (cowboys?) get really excited about their dental checkups…:

P&G: Crest Toothpaste, 1980 (dmbb14049), Courtesy of Duke University AdViews and the Internet Archive.

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