Items matching advertisements (results page 1)

Dustjacket flaps from Proverbs bookDictionary of Proverbs (1917)

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: 2006-10-09

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Girl in the window: Atlantic and Pascific Tea Company 1880s Trade CardVictorian Trade Cards (1890)

This trade card from the 1880s was made as an advert for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. It features a girl in a blue and white dress with blue ribbons in her hair resting her elobows on w [...]

Keywords: people, girls, advertisements, colour, trade cards, plants, victoriana

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-01-13

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Back of boy fishing cartoonVictorian Trade Cards (1890)

I scanned this, the reverse side of a cartoon about a boy fishing, because the typography somewhat dates the cartoon. There is part of an advert for Dry & Fancy [Goods], groceries, clothing, boots, ha [...]

Keywords: typography, fonts, advertisements, lettering, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-01-13

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Man putting up a posterLondon (Volume V) (1843)

A man us using a pair of brooms on long poles to stick up a poster advertising an auction on a wall already plastered with advertising posters. He wears a top hat but his trousers have holes and patc [...]

Keywords: advertisements, people, posters, hats, victorian costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-02-27

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Old Advert: Christmas Gift Charms and BroochesScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-04

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Old Advert: Diamonds on CreditScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-17

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Cupid with a Whip!Scribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-17

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Old Advert: How to Grow TallScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-05

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Old Advert: For My Lady’s ToiletScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-05

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Old Advert: Arts and Crafts FurnitureScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

Arts and Crafts furniture Built true to the household art established by William Morris. No nails or screws are used in construction. A furniture of character and richness. Send for our free booklet [...]

Keywords: advertisements, furniture, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-05

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Old Advert: Razall Loose Leaf SystemScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-05

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Old Advert: Hotel ChamberlinScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

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

Places shown: Old Point Comfort; Virginia; USA

Added: 2008-06-04

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Old Advert: Oceanic Steamship CompanyScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

OCEANIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY (American and Australian Lines) to Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand Australia and Tahiti New Tour to New Zealand via Hawaii and Samoa, re­turning via Tasmania, Austra­lia, Fiji, $5 [...]

Keywords: advertisements, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-23

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Old Advert: The Sun TypewriterScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-28

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Antique typewriterScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-28

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Santa Fe All The WayScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

This vintage advert for the Santa Fe Railway (modern US: Railroad) shows a beautiful lady (I imagine) fastening her hair with the aid of a mirror, wearing a long evening dress or gown; there is an ele [...]

Keywords: advertisements, romance, people, travel, railways, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-07

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Old Advert: Illinois Central RailroadScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

New Line * Fine Service Illinois Central Railroad Minneapolis and St. Paul Through from Chicago via Dubuque, Waterloo and Albert Lea. Fast vestibule Night train with through Stateroom and Open-section [...]

Keywords: advertisements, travel, first nations, railways, transport, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-01-05

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Old Advert: Whitman’s ChocolatesScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

In this old ad, we see a book called “A History of Love” behind an open box of chocolates, and the text reads: A HISTORY of LOVE would contain the sweetest of chapters on WHITMAN’S Chocolates and Conf [...]

Keywords: romance, advertisements, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-17

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Pommery ChampagneScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

An old advert for Pommery Champagne, showing a silhouette of a vintner holding up a bunch of grapes and a silhouette of a lady in a summer dress holding up a glass. The text is characteristically Amer [...]

Keywords: advertisements, wine making, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-08

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Vintner from Chapmagne AdScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

A silhouette of a man wearing a neck-tie, apron, rolled-up sleeves, hat and boots, holding up a bunch of grapes.

This is a detail from a 1908 American Pommery Champagne advert.

Keywords: advertisements, illustrations, people, wine making, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-08

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