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Advertising, Design, Food, History, Illustration, Print, Vintage Advertising, Candy, Illustration, Life Savers, Print Ads, Sweets, Vintage Ads
From Wiki: In 1912 Edward John Noble bought the rights to Life Saver candies for $2,900. Noble founded the Life Savers and Candy Company in 1913 and significantly expanded the market for the product by installing Life Savers displays next to the cash registers of restaurants and grocery stores. He […]
Advertising, Arts, History, Illustration, Print, Vintage Albert Lasker, C. Everett Johnson, Cal Arts, Chouinard, Cleveland, Disney, Electric Cars, FCB, Lord & Thomas Advertising Agency, Rauch & Lang, Vintage Ads
The first thing that struck me when I saw these car ads for Rauch & Lang was how Disney-like the lovely illustrations were. As it turns out I might not have been far off!
Advertising, Drugas, Print, Typography, Vintage Asthma Cigarettes, Dr Batty, Drugs, Laudanum, Methedrine, Naive, Opium, Vintage Ads
Dr. Batty’s cigarettes are not recommended for children under 6. But just look at the variety of lovely late 1800’s typefaces. Opium. Yesteryears‘ Fentanyl today. It’s hard to read but basically it’s saying opium is twice as strong as morphine. Sears, Roebuck and Co. where marketing laudanum as a sleep […]
Advertising, Design, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Print, Typography, Vintage British Tripe Council, Funny Ad, Print Ads, Tripe, Vintage Ads, Wigan
Win The Weight Of Your Baby In Tripe! Are you feeding your little angel on tripe? It’s the perfect food for growing babies! < p style=”text-align: left;”>Note the added selling points: As featured in the Wigan Daily mail Promoted by the British Tripe Council
Advertising, Funny, Typography, Vintage, Words etc Fonts, Funny Ad, Grotesk, Mergenthaler, Print Ads, Trade Gothic, Typographic Humor, Typography, Vintage Ads
Q: But you are so potent, forthright and versatile. You’re the type everyone likes. Why repress it, Trade Gothic? A: My father was Grotesk.
Advertising, Americas, Funny, History, Print, Vintage Funny, Guns, History, Iver Johnson, Print Ads, Vintage Ads
“Papa says it won’t hurt us” — Iver Johnson Revolvers Ad Note: According to this wikipedia entry on Iver Johnson, President William McKinley and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were killed by Iver Johnson revolvers. This vintage ad ran in Harper’s Weekly (1904). Found at LiveJournal.
Advertising, Funny, History, Tech, Vintage Advertising, Funny, Tech, Vintage Ads
What the heck is electronic mail? That’s the question posed in this Honeywell ad, which explains: “Simply put, it means high-speed information transportation. “One of the most advanced methods is terminals talking to one another. “Your mailbox is the terminal on your desk. Punch a key and today’s correspondence […]
Advertising, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Print, Vintage Classic Graphics, Flickrset, Prints, Travel Posters, Vintage Ads, Vintage Posters
Lots more at mpt.1607‘s Poster and Advertisements Flickr set.
Advertising, Funny, History, Vintage Fat, Funny Ads, Health, In The Past, Lard, Smoking, Vintage Ads
Thanks to Helen P
Advertising, Funny, Hmmn Interesting, Print, Vintage 1968, Advertising, Lestoil, Print Ads, The Moon, Vintage Ads, weird ad
“Women of the future will make the moon a cleaner place to live” 1968 Lestoil (moon helmet) Ad And in case you didn’t think the headline nailed it, check out the body copy. My imagination has the writer coiled up in a swivel chair, gleefully rubbing his hands together, “Nothing, […]