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Advertising card from 1898
Not an ad, but a label from an actual product from the 1890s. Yikes!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/morphine-and-weed-syrup/
Safety razor ad from 1901
1911 advertisement https://archive.ph/Qr4qa
Navy recruiting poster, 1917
Best I can find for a date is that this is from WWI.
Best I can tell, this was a real ad for a real product. Now, I don't normally censor my posts (except when it's funny), but this time... yeah.
Saturday Evening Post, February 5, 1927
Photoplay, July, 1930
Promotional material from 1935.
Kellogg's Pep Cereal ad, 1939
Saturday Evening Post, August 5, 1939
Colt magazine ad from 1939
Munsingwear magazine ad. All I could find on the date was that Munsingwear did a series of photo-story ads from 1939 to 1945.
Movie-Radio Guide, November 1943
Magazine ad from 1944. Just in case you thought all the sexism in advertising was directed towards women. It wasn't.
Only MOST of it.
Ovaltine magazine ad, 1945
Ladies' Home Journal, April, 1946
DDT ad from 1947. I don't know about you, but I'd be a BIT worried about a company called "Killing Salt Chemicals", but maybe that's just me.
Life, December 15, 1947
1948 pamphlet titled "9 Ways to Spark Family Favorites", advertising 7-Up.
Today’s Woman, November 1949
Daily News, September 5, 1950
Van Heusen tie ad, 1951 (this one's been cropped, but all you're missing is some hideous ties)
All I can find is that it's from 1952. https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/doctors-smoking/more-doctors-smoke-camels/#collection-22
Schlitz ad from 1952
Charles Antell magazine ad from 1952
Van Heusen magazine ad, 1952.
Just in case you thought they were only sexist.
Life, August 11, 1952
Alcoa Aluminum ad from 1953 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_mean_a_woman_can_open_it%3F
Hoover ad from 1953
Saturday Evening Post, August 29, 1953
Life, September 12, 1955
Life, February 13, 1956
Life, 1956
Austin American-Statesman, June 19, 1956
Sears ad from 1958. Not so much that it didn't age well, just I thought it was funny. Imagine if you bought a package of underwear today, and it came with your choice of a CD by Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, or Bruno Mars.
1961 ad for Kenwood Chef (no relation to the manufacturer of Kenwood audio equipment)
Life, February 2, 1962
Volkswagen ad, 1964
Boys' Life, 1966
Life, 1967
Comic book ad from 1967
Magazine ad from 1967
Life, December 12, 1969
Time, August 30, 1971
The Detroit News, 1973
Mademoiselle, March, 1973
Playboy, 1974
Love's Baby Soft ad from 1975
GCRust
#2 This can fix me.
somethingsomethingwittyhere
#7
NorrinxRadd
#10 had to do some work in this guys house that had this or a similar one framed in his "man" cave, told him I don't work in racists houses. This was 10-15 years ago
iamjackscompletelackofcompassion
fuckin hell these are something else
sowhat4
Am in my 80s and actually remember all these ads. They go a long way in explaining why some women - particularly in my age bracket - thought 'they were nothing without a man' and just accepted the blatant sexism in education and the workplace. Used to make me furious, though, as my parents just could not turn me into a 'lady' despite their best efforts. I was an adult before black children could go to school with white ones and alive when Truman desegregated the military. Never go back.
grandtheftjimbo
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cytherians
A certain group of people keep a 1950's tradition alive... 🤔🤨😕
AtariJaguar64Bit
I also appreciate historic authenticity, @OP, but you made the right call on the censorship there.
TI99Kitty
Yeah, I debated it for awhile, but then I decided that one was *way* over the line.
Nikolai5
I've never understood why they used black people in the ads like that, they could have shown that their product cleans anything else, but they chose black people, was it supposed to be funny at the time or was it part of the dehumanisation propaganda?
TI99Kitty
Oh, it was definitely part of the propaganda. While I was looking up sources and dates, I learned that a *lot* of soap ads equated light skin with "purity." There were also a lot of ads for skin lighteners that basically equated looking like a white person with being more attractive (the most egregious being #7). We still have those products today, but the advertising has been toned down to be less overtly racist.
CatEyebrows
#9 I will forever think of Mad Men when I hear “it’s toasted”
TI99Kitty
Yeah, when I was looking for sources on these (and some others I wound up not using), I saw *lots* of references to Mad Men.
cytherians
BrigidtheMechLady
This is what the MAGAts want to go back to...
Revyloution
They need to bring back whiskey toothpaste
Allhailthepossumqueen
#13 @deafkitten I thought you should see this.
NCPilot
#11 So that's what they were calling cocaine back in the day.
Awmph
better living though chemistry
Justboredtobehere
#43 I think I HAD that toy gun!
hyptosis
That gun was amazing.
https://youtu.be/PJWHNDnFpks?t=244
ParaspriteHugger
#5 Yvan eht nioj!
Justboredtobehere
#36 I'd be down for Scotch toothpaste. Just as long as it's single malt.
wylkyn
Now I want a cigarette and some domestic violence.
tentacularfleshscape
Listen buddy, we import too much violence from overseas. With these tariffs we'll finally get back our good honest domestic violence.
wylkyn
If it was good enough for my father...
JUNK13B01
There's some very racist shit in here
Thorketil
#4 Colorado is really cheap.
TI99Kitty
Kind'a feel sorry for Montana and North Dakota, though. What? Nobody wanted them?
Copperbrat
Not enough yike buttons on my keyboard.
beemarr
#31 I'm getting old and all domestic. I actually wouldn't mind a good vacuum cleaner as a gift. Those really good ones can get expensive, after all.
HarperLee
I got my wife an electric mop/vacuum for Xmas once. She still refers to it as her favorite Xmas gift
HardTimeKillinFoulNews
I turned 30 this year and my parents got me a Le Creuset cast iron pot. I was (still am) over the moon with it. Domestic gifts feel like luxury treats in this economy.
Awmph
$$$$$ for sure
I'd take most any household appliance as a gift and be happy about it.
I'm not even a 50's housewife
Addmagnet
I like her dress. I'd also like her figure, but I've learnt to be realistic!
FPAlpha
Not gonna lie - last year at work a co-worker, 26, and me, 48, got talking and excited about good vacuums and i recommended mine, which was a bit pricier but she bought it anyway.
Once you are at this stage you can't call yourself young anymore but i don't mind.
tentacularfleshscape
Miele?
Exdeath5000
#50
Kingdomonsterdeath
That one is extra gross, which is saying something, considering how terrible all of the rest are. Might have to try the 7up and milk, though. Sounds gross, but you never know until you try it sometimes.
Justboredtobehere
Shape of those bottles is not a coincidence.
nclu
Woah there Roman Polanski
hyptosis
yeah that was a really rough one
jshann
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mcc1ane
dorklordsickus
BearUnhinged
BigDaddysMeatWagon
Oh that's a keeper
Akurei00
And #35 was only slightly better
TI99Kitty
Yeah, that was more disturbing than the Lane Bryant ad I was originally going to use, because at least the LB ad didn't describe young girls as "yummy."
STGxDante
Daughter not as fuckable as her friends? We can fix that! - Fred Trump probably
SandpaperCock
#7 while I understand why you chose to censor it, I find censoring of historical context to be dubious in all cases (this is a relatively innocuous case but historical revisionism is bad in so far that it has an enormous risk of whitewashing what really ought not be whitewashed. The past is sometimes ugly and it's important to acknowledge that).
Nanoline
Should painful history be censored? No. Would Imgur ban him and remove the whole gallery if he has posted it complete uncensored? Yes. We navigate the realities we have. 🤷♂️
WigglyBlondeNoodle
Leaving the slur in would likely get the post flagged and taken down. At least this way, history can be freely shared.
SideBoobsWillGetYouBanned
Agreed. But I bet he'd be banned if it wasn't. People have a tendency not to be able to see beyond the historical context
erinaceus
yes. i have been dinged for pointing out that white people in the south created N-Word Towns where black people were/are forced to live. very ugly, but its nicer to white folks to make it sound more acceptable.
kerms
We all know exactly what it says, it just isn't entirely necessary to leave a slur in big bold letters on a social media site. It's not like Looney Tunes cutting a scene entirely for a modern audience that completely changes the context, it's just bleeping a word.
potatoispeople
I don't mind the censorship of the word. I do mind that it's done in a way that makes it look as if the word was never there. Just use a black bar or smth.
Deshalope
Eh well, we all know it doesn't say "narwhal" under there, so for as long as it's clear what it was and that it got censored, it's ok.
SpatPants
It's really not, that's how you slowly but surely hide the problem. There is absolutely no way it is fine to apply censorship to an older piece of media, especialy when the purpose is to show how problematic it was. If in a few years someone who does not know the word finds the piece, they just wouldn't know the amount of horror that hides behind it; and if every single piece of media did this the whole thing would look quite a lot less awful.
Deshalope
Unfortunately I don't share your optimism that in a few years someone might not know the word that's missing, unless they're completely unfamiliar with English, in which case it's a moot point.
hyptosis
I despise censorship of any kind, but i also understand him not wanting his imgur account banned.
Akurei00
An exception is unnecessary censorship. Censoring innocuous things can make them pretty funny. Like The Count https://youtu.be/B-Wd-Q3F8KM?feature=shared
TI99Kitty
Sometimes, it's not the censorship itself, but the *way* it's censored that makes it funny. Like this song from Lily Allen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8VZX4sHn-4
hyptosis
of course :D
EggEggHeSaidEgg
#13 is legitimately hilarious - aged like a fine wine. "While making everybody happy - do a good job and include yourself" is just adspeak sanitising the Christmas murder-sui rampage we've all been dreaming of.
TI99Kitty
Yeah, my first though upon reading "Isn't it time you gave *yourself* a Christmas Gift?" on a note next to a pistol was "JFC, that's morbid!"
WalksWithNoFear
I'll have a 1911, though, if anyone's offering one for Christmas.
1stDrunkJoe
Thanks! Now I have evidence that "Back in my day..." they were dumbasses and we're still mostly dumbasses.
TI99Kitty
And this is just *print* ads! You should see some of the stuff that made it on TV? Like the ads where the husband basically says the wife is pretty but her coffee is terrible -- like it's some terrible, draw-up-the-divorce-papers flaw. Or the Winston ads that aired at the end of The Flintstones, showing Fred, Barney, Wilma, or Betty lighting up a Winston cigarette and talking about how smooth it is, or whatever.
SuperfluousMeh
#2 anyone know what the m in 4 1/4m is?
ParaspriteHugger
That should be minim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_%28unit%29
TI99Kitty
Oooh! TIL!
mercyPandaRunner
#11 This is absolutely getting worse if you look up who the fuck Mr. Kellogs was. The dude was on a full on crusade against fun. He believed sexual pleasure was to be only and exclusively permitted during the attempt of making babies. Not even fucking your wedded spouse for funs, you dirty bastard! He led by example. All his children were adopted. It is not known if he and his wife were ever intimate at all.
He invented Cornflakes (unsweetened back then) in order to create the blandest >
mercyPandaRunner
and unpleasurable nutritional breakfast paste possible. For he thought maximizing how depressing and unappealing food was would kill that nasty sex drive. Yes. He meant every meal. No tasty food! No fun! Stop grinning, Samuel! I don't see you being busy doing gods work and making pious little babies who can worship him and be miserable, do i? You were not born to have fun, Samuel!
tentacularfleshscape
His brother added sugar, he objected, lost the court case
mercyPandaRunner
Wow! Imagine how much of a killjoy you have to be to get into a legal battle with your own brother, because he made your food recipe, you specifically designed to kill peoples will to live, tasty and people love it.
tentacularfleshscape
Puritanism.—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Justboredtobehere
#48 This one is probably pretty progressive for the time. Mother's always said that....mine did. The fact she's a pro driver increases the likelihood.
LordLobster
Mine also says to where good underwear just in case you go to the hospital or die. What is the problem with the ad? I understood all the other ads but not this one.
TI99Kitty
My mother just said to wear *clean* underwear in case I was in an accident. Not "pretty" underwear.
tentacularfleshscape
It's morbid as fuck?
LordLobster
Ah, i thought because all the other ads were racist and sexist that this was as well, but couldn't figure it out.
TI99Kitty
It's less sexist, but mothers used to say wear *clean* underwear in case your undies were seen. Wearing "pretty" underwear implies you *want* them to be seen.