Showing posts with label Annals of Advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Annals of Advertising. Show all posts

Friday, May 30, 2008

America #40, Annals of Advertising #7, Foreign Lands #26, Food #11


Advertisement for the "Uncle Sam" Range, Manufactured by Abendroth Bros., New York City (1876)

The menu in the world's hand reads:

BILL OF FARE
For the Uncle Sam Range.

ENGLAND
Roast Beef
Plum Pudding

GERMANY
Sausages
[illegible]
Sour Cream

FRANCE
Saddle de Horse
Curried Frogs
Snails
Donkey a la Mode

IRELAND
Potatoes
Fried
Boiled
Stewed
Roasted
Baked
Mashed
Raw

CHINA
Birds Nests
Boiled Grasshoppers
Rats Fricassed with Watermelon Seeds

RUSSIA
Tallow
Candles
Seals Blubber
Train Oil
White Bear

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Annals of Advertising #6, The Animal Kingdom #12


Nestlé sells milk through feline anthropomorphism. (ca. 1910)

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Cinema #34, Love, #20, Annals of Advertising #5



Trailer for Leave Her to Heaven
d: John M. Stahl cinematographer: Leon Shamroy (1945)

Monday, February 04, 2008

Annals of Advertising #4, The Animal Kingdom #8


Carrollton Chemical Co. advertisement (~early 1900s)

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Tuesday, December 26, 2006