Vintage advertisements?

[lord_k]

Just Some Hats!

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[Kahuna]

I guess one reason I've always been attracted to vintage advertisements is that my dad studied advertising in the 40's. Although he never went into it full time, he did do a bit of freelancing and I remember him being at the drawing board with his airbrush quite a bit when I was a kid. When dad died in '95 we found some of the watercolors he had taken up in later years but I didn't find any of the stuff I remembered from when I was a kid.
About a year after I was cleaning out the garage of the house I'd inherited from my folks, where I'd been living since I was a kid, and found a suitcase full of his early art projects. Two of them hang in my kitchen now. Unfortunately these scans don't do justice to the amount of detail in them. I have an enormous amount of respect for those old admen and illustrators who did everything by hand. It's pretty much a lost art these days.

 

[HepKitty]

Kahuna those are great!

 

[lord_k]

Self D-Froster!


1948

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[V.C. Brunswick]

 

[lord_k]

Vermouth by Mauzan

What a nice QM!
And now somerhing from Italy:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

 

[Warbaby]

1923

 

[lord_k]

New York Central, 1951



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[Nobert]

Vintage Ad Browser is sort of my default for this kind of stuff online.

 

[Kahuna]

Just found this one on Boing Boing. It looks like a parody but this is an actual ad that ran during WW2 when industries were stopping production of their normal products and gearing up for wartime manufacturing.

 

[lord_k]

Another Wartime Ad



1943
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[lord_k]

1955 Mars Bar



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[V.C. Brunswick]

Rezinotrest (Rubber Trust), USSR

 

[lord_k]

Rezinotrest (Rubber Trust), USSR

Want more of this? I've got some:
1920s Soviet Ads
1930s Soviet Ads
Most posters have Cyrillic lettering but some (as the one you posted above) are export-oriented.
Sorry, can't insert any photos from these albums.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Kirin Beer, 1920s
I was always captivated by this advert with the enigmatic bathing beauty that combines traditional Japanese beauty with Jazz Age style.

 

[lord_k]

I was always captivated by this advert with the enigmatic bathing beauty that combines traditional Japanese beauty with Jazz Age style.

Check this link. You'll love it.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

A couple more Japanese ads

Chuyo Cigarettes, 1900

Sakura Beer, ca. 1912-16
advert produced for the Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) market. Note the influence of Art Nouveau with a style reminiscent of Alphonse Mucha.

 

[lord_k]

Punch The Clock



1952

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[lord_k]

Pyrex, 1946



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