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Working Women
Vintage illustrations Children’s School Book “My Little Pictionary” by Marion Monroe, Scott, Foresman & Co, 1962 Labor Day is a good time to start learning to “lean in,” ladies. Th first Monday in...
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Suburban Lawn Doctor
Vintage Beer Ad 1952 Beer Belongs Campaign- Home life in America Series #69 “Saturday Afternoon at the lake front illustrator: Douglass Crockwell Images of a green, velvety carpet of grass remain...
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America World Peace Keeper
Ambassador of Peace- Illustration from 1948 Vintage Ad US Army and US Air Force Recruiting Service“Your Army and Your Air Force Serve the Nation and Mankind in War and Peace With our all-American can...
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Cold War Defrosted
Cover Illustration from Colliers Magazine 10/27/51 This Cold War era magazine imagines a “Preview of a War We Don’t Want” a cold war what-if, featuring Russia’s defeat and US occupation 1952-1960....
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The Hard Sell
P.T,Barnum American showman who founded the circus that became Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Baily Circus. Often viewed as a scam artist, he is well remembered for promoting hoaxes.Illustration...
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Remembering The World Trade Center
(L) Vintage Ad Zenith Radio (R) Cover NY Magazine 10/20/80 The New York I Love News of the 9/11 tragedy found its way to me through the antiquated airwaves of a vintage Bakelite radio. Only days...
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American Dream Doesn’t Add Up
Two Schools of Thought Simply put, sometimes the American Dream seems very black and white. According to a new study by economists at the University of California, Berkley, the current income...
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Cold War Defrosted PtII
“Defrosting the Cold War” collage by Sally Edelstein Is the Cold War coming out of the deep freeze? Having caught a Cold War chill I never could quite shake, the current frosty relations between...
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All American Beauty
Reflections on Beauty- Mirror, Mirror on the wall who’s the fairest of them all? Vintage ad Pepsodent 1948 Reflections on Beauty Who’s the fairest of them all? In the great cultural cauldron of 20th...
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Trouble Brewing At Starbucks
Firearms and Frappuccino Coffee Talk While sipping my early morning non fat caffe mocha-hold the whip, at my local Starbucks, my ears perked up at an argument between the barista and some customers....
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How to Avoid the Risk of Offending
Vintage White Rock Beverage Ad 1946 In a time of heightened sensitivity over stereotypes, years of ethnic and racial labeling have fortunately, largely been erased from advertising. During the post-war...
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A Soaring Economy
The Soaring American Economy(L) Special issue Life Magazine 1/5/53 The American and His Economy (R) Illustration from Mutual Life Insurance Ad 1945 The soaring economy of post war America was the gold...
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What Was The Right Brewing Before The Tea Party?
“Every citizen must read this as it tells what you and every American can do to save our constitutional freedom and competitive economic system from destruction.”“The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping...
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Candy is Dandy
“Modern nutritionists agree that when the body calls for energy, candy is one of the quick and happy answers.”Vintage ads (L) Mars bar 1957 (R) DuPont Cellophane 1958 With Halloween approaching,...
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Blackface Follies
It’s safe to say that this 1950 Lifesavers ad that ran in Life Magazine would never appear today. Among the collection of vintage advertising we’re likely never to see today can be added this 1950...
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Riveted by Miss Rheingold
New Yorkers went nuts for Miss RheingoldVintage Rheingold Beer Ad Miss Rheingold 1951 Elise Gammon For some mid-century misses the title of Miss America was the American Dream. But in 1948, for NYC...
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Sun, Sand and JFK
The sizzling summer of 1960 was dominated by the equally hot Presidential race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Earlier in the summer Kennedy had boldly beckoned us to hitch our wagon to his...
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Voting-Democracy in Action
Vintage illustration from children’s school book “New Ways in the New World” 1960 Growing up our textbooks taught us that America was Democracy in action. Especially when it came to our cherished right...
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Victory Homes for the Vet
The Post War American Dream would be waiting for the returning vet and his “best girl”(L) Vintage Ad Community Silver “Back Home For Keeps” illustration by Jon Whitcomb (R) Vintage Ad 1945 Nash...
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Protecting the Philippines
Drinking Coke was synonymous with fighting the enemies of freedom and democracy.Vintage WWII Coca Cola Ad 1945 The heartbreaking tragedy on the Leyte Island of the Philippines which bore the brunt of...
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