Items matching advertisements

Old Advert: 12: Drumnadrochit Hotel at Lochness

The back of the guide book has a section of “additional advertisements” for railways and hotels in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland. This one takes up the whole of page 12 of that supplement an [...]

Keywords: advertisements, page images

Places shown: Drumnadrochit; Inverness-shire; Scotland

Added: 2006-02-15

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Old Advert: 13: National & Station Hotel; Glenalbyn Hotel; Melrose hotels

The back of the guide book has a section of “additional advertisements” for railways and hotels in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Page 13 of that supplement is headed “Scotland” and has thre [...]

Keywords: advertisements, page images

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-03-05

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Dustjacket flaps from Proverbs book

The dust-jacket of the fac-simle had adverts on the front and back flaps for other books by Yale University Press, including There’s Pippins and Cheese to Come, Journeys to Bagdad, Les Trophées and Th [...]

Keywords: advertisements, book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-10

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Old Advert: The Sun Typewriter

The SUN Typwriter No. 2 PERFECT IN MECHANICAL ACTION It is a type lever or type bar machine. It has visible writing in its truest form. It has unlimited speed. It has an anti-ribbon inking mechanis [...]

Keywords: advertisements, machinery, typewriters

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-28

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Old Advert: Christmas Gift Charms and Brooches

Order your Christmas Gifts by mail Send for our Year Book for 1904. The SOMETHING DIFFERENT you wish for christmas may be found in its 188 pages. Of the numberless articles in Solid Gold and Sterlin [...]

Keywords: advertisements

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-04

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Old Advert: For My Lady’s Toilet

An advertisement for Violet (Ve-o-lay) Paris perfumes, soaps, sachets and toilet requisites. A lady in 1900s costume holds a bunch of flowers in her skirt.

Keywords: advertisements, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-05

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Cupid with a Whip!

We see a pair of lovers, but they are pulling along behind them a two-wheeled chariot whose driver is a cherub, a putti, a cupid in fact, whose long whip encourages the couple to move onwards. The wh [...]

Keywords: romance, advertisements, people, chariots, cherubs, whips, transport, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-18

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Antique typewriter

An old picture of a typewriter, suitable for clip-art; the machine was new when the picture was taken. This is taken from an old ad for a type-writer.

Keywords: advertisements, typewriters, machinery

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-28

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Old Advert: Razall Loose Leaf System

An old advertisement for a book-keeping system. A person stands holding a pen on the left, and on the right a man with a monocle sports a moustache. behind them is a desk with folders and an open ledg [...]

Keywords: advertisements, offices, interiors, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-05

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Old Advert: Hotel Chamberlin

Keywords: advertisements, buildings, hotels, water, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Old Point Comfort; Virginia; USA

Added: 2008-06-04

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Old Advert: Diamonds on Credit

Loftis Brothers selling diamonds on credit, over 100 years ago.

I have made a separate version of the graphic for use perhaps on a Valentine’s Day card.

Keywords: advertisements, people, cherubs, romance

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-18

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Old Advert: How to Grow Tall

How to Grow Tall Wonderful Discovery made by PROF. K. LEO MINGES Why be short and stunted, when for the mere asking you can become tall and graceful? Write to-day and we will mail to you, free of cha [...]

Keywords: advertisements, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-05

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