Historical Image of the Day
Advertisement, Good Housekeeping, 1950s. I can't quite read the date at the bottom of the page. July of some year in the 50s.
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Showing posts with label Advertisements. Show all posts
Friday, May 06, 2011
Advertisement, Good Housekeeping, 1950s. I can't quite read the date at the bottom of the page. July of some year in the 50s.
Friday, February 04, 2011
Friday, October 01, 2010
Friday, June 04, 2010
Roosevelt Has Never Been This Happy!
An ad from a Guatemalan Hooters:
I really don't know what I could possibly add to this.
Via Edge of the American West.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Historical Image of the Day
And to bring this week of great images full circle, back to Bayer Heroin. Advertisement circa 1900
Thursday, February 11, 2010
A Product We Can All Get Behind
Or at least manly men like myself....
From House and Garden magazine, 1961.
The history of products designed specifically for men to get them to clean, smell good, be comfortable doing things defined as feminine, etc., is pretty interesting. And this is a classicly extreme case.
I wonder if Don Draper would approve of this ad?
Via the always useful Sociological Images.
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Strange Images from Advertising - The Coca-Cola Swastika
One of the informal things I like most about being a historian is coming upon ads and consumer goods that are extremely anachronistic now, but really hit upon the zeitgeist and language of a particular time-period. These ads, in retrospect, are often horribly racist, sexist, or classist (though that isn't to say advertising has lost any of these qualities today), but the fact that they do tap into something that was perhaps popular and/or effective at another time makes for a delightful mixture of amusement and unease.
Which is why this watch-fob promoting Coca-Cola on a Swastika is so remarkable. Of course, as many will comment, the Swastika well pre-dates the Nazi Party in Germany, and can be found in India, among indigenous cultures in the United States (including decorations adorning the Kimo Theater in Albuquerque). Still, this is one of those promotionals that you know you will never see in the Western World again, all because of their associations with the Nazis and with Hitler specifically (much in the way toothbrush mustaches just don't appear anymore).
Of course, the Coca-Cola swastika made sense at its time - Coca-Cola attaching its name to a symbol that meant (in a pre-Nazi time) good luck and good health was actually a rather innovating and relatively harmless ad campaign for the early 1900s. Still, there's something really strange about seeing those things now, even in looking to the past.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Historical Image of the Day
Aunt Jemima ad. I don't have an exact date, but it has to be in the 1950s, or the few years on either side of that decade.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Historical Image of the Day
I don't know what "chill tonic" is supposed to be, but thank goodness its tasteless (unlike this ad, of course, which is all class). Whatever it is, this is a counter card ad for it, circa 1880.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Historical Image of the Day
Ad for Viceroy cigarettes. I don't have a date. I assume somewhere between the late 1940s and very early 1960s.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Let's Take a Winston Break!!!
I present you this clip of the Flinstones hawking Winston cigarettes.
As a special gift, awesome gender commentary as well!!!
I don't even know what to say.
Monday, February 04, 2008
Historical Image of the Day
Advertisement for Harlem Globetrotters pinball game. I don't have a date, but it almost has to be from the 1970s.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
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