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The magnifying glass views are shocking! Source: Household Magazine, October 1931

Source: Life Magazine, June 30, 1941

Source: Household Magazine, October 1931

An app for that 1950s style - part 2. Source: Bride’s Magazine, Winter 1953

I would have a headache, too, if a giant hand with a giant glass of Alka-Seltzer were coming at me.

Source: The Saturday Evening Post, December 1975.

Source: Saturday Evening Post, November 25, 1944

“most luxurious necessity”? Source: Brides Magazine, Winter 1957

Sony Trinitron - our lens is bigger

‘Barbie The Fashion’ clothing line ads (2004)

Floating Worlds

“St. Patrick’s Day Ice Cream”Ten-B-Low concentrated cream

“Ah! The Irish sure know how to make beer.”Schlitz beer

~ Pastime Moving Picture Show, 1913via Flickr“The Moving Pictures are given with the Lates

~ Du Pont Magazine, February 1914“…we will, at an early date, print the word &a

~ 1937via Flickr(click to enlarge)“You’re never alone when you ride with a genui

~ The Pacific Monthly, July - January 1909“There can be no question that the HOWARD is the

~ Bohemia Nugget, May 2, 1902 (Cottage Grove, Oregon)via Historic Oregon Newspapers

dandyads: Cycle Trades of America, 1920 “Make your trips to and from work a pleasure inste

~ The American Magazine, vol. XCII, July 1921 - December 1921via google books(click to enlarge)

~ Advertising and Selling Fortnightly, 1925via internet archive(click to enlarge)“Here is

dandyads: Kroehler Daven-o, 1922“The Invisible Bed Room”

~ Good Housekeeping, 1917via HathiTrust Digital Library“Unmindful of pedals or levers, att

~ Woolrich Woolen Mills, Playboy, September 1962via Flickr“When you’re wearing a

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