Research Guides: HIST 067T: Pandemic of Cigarette Smoking (SC): Other Tobacco Document Collections

Tobacco Documents Collections

Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising (SRITA)
Extensive collection of 66,000+ tobacco industry advertisements from 19th century-present. Find ads from outside the US in Global Village I and Global Village II.
Tobacco Pack Surveillance System
Images of tobacco packaging from around the world, 2013-2020.
UCSF Industry Archives Videos
Find tobacco TV commercials and other videos by year. (e.g. Marlboro).
Also includes internal company-facing videos such as presentations for sales representatives and stockholders.
Marlboro Oral History and Documentation Project (Smithsonian)
Some materials from this collection are available online. To use, enter a keyword and check the box "Digital Only."

Other Databases with Primary Sources

Global Commodities
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Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange provides a vast range of visual, manuscript and printed materials sourced from over twenty key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organisations around the world. These original sources will help scholars to explore the history of fifteen major commodities and to examine the ways that these have changed the world. Among the 15 commodities are chocolate, coffee, opium, sugar, tea, and tobacco.
Periodicals Index Online
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Useful site for finding articles about topics in journals and magazines, from the late 1700s-2000. Includes publications in multiple languages. You can limit your results by country of publication.Note-- This site only gives you citations for articles. To read articles, try clicking the FindIt button. If that doesn't work, go to Borrow Beyond TriCo and follow the journal article request link, or contact Simon Elichko for help.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
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Find English-language translations of historical radio and television news broadcasts from countries around the world. Includes news from 1941-1996.
For 1996-2013, use the World News Connection database instead.
World News Connection
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Contains hundreds of international news for the period 1995-2013. Material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.