#vintage ads
Curtis, 1952
Your morning cereal, pt. 2
Your morning cereal
Your morning cereal
Your morning cereal, pt. 1
Keeping the holidays very GAY!!!
::shudder::
Your morning cereal
These are are classified as ‘Easy’ - their shirt pattern is simple, too! Interesting pocket that buttons ‘up’.
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~The Cornhill Magazine, January 1922
“Don’t trifle with new and untried remedies, but use the preparation which has stood the Test of Time - 120 Years. Use it for your own and your children’s hair and you will find it nourishes, enriches, and restores it more effectually than any other preparation.”
History Geek Note: have you ever wondered why old pictures show the chairs and sofas covered in doilies? No? OK, it’s just me….anyway the reason is that Macassar Oil and similar hair “treatments” were greasy and would stain the furniture. It was easier to wash a doily covered in hair oil then it was to get the stain out of the back of the chair, so ladies began covering everything with doilies. Now you know. Don’t you feel better? I know I do.
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There is nothing more exciting and life-fulfilling than the clickity clack of a slide carousel because can’t spell carouselwithoutcarouse.
National Geographic Magazine November 1960
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Lean, Mean Friday Thirteen
“Wear a mask or go to jail” , California, 1918.
People stand together while wearing masks in an effort to protect themselves from the Spanish Flu. The 1918 Spanish flu killed up to 50 million people around the world and has been called “the mother of all pandemics”.
Dubonnet. 1933. A. M. Cassandre.
Each: 11 5/8 x 15 in./29.5 x 38 cm
Cassandre’s most popular and enduring advertising idea was for Dubonnet, an odd aperitif created with fortified wine, herbs, spices and quinine. It’s basically the French version of the gin-&-tonic: a drink invented so French Foreign Legionnaires in North Africa could get the quinine down. For a commercial market, however, the libation was a little more dubious. Cassandre ran with it: “Dubo,” (a casual French word for ‘doubt’); “Dubon” (‘good’)… Dubonnet. “Whether Cassandre was thinking of comic strips or motion pictures is impossible to say,“ but "among French posters of the twentieth century none is better known. It was kept in circulation for more than two decades” (Brown & Reinhold, p. 17). This is in a version not previously seen: 3 sheets, smaller format, and with the originally intended blue center panel.
Available at auction February 25, 2018.
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Fly TWA Jets / Paris. 1962. David Klein.
24 7/8 x 40 ¼ in./63.2 x 102.4 cm
One of David Klein’s most celebrated posters. In this exultation of the City of Light, Klein’s stylized fireworks mimic the illustrated showgirls of the Folies-Bèrgere in posters of the period.
Available at auction February 25, 2018.
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