Vintage Ads

I absolutely love the artwork in this series.




The African cruise one is particularly interesting, considering how little you hear about cruises around Africa these days.  And TWO MONTHS, good lord.

From Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 12 June 1790.  A search here for the word "sold" turns up all sorts of fun things: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

20 Tuesday ONE DAY EVENT: Floating heads. Ads with floating heads

23-25 Friday - Sunday Weekend EventS: Sweaters and Ancient Ads. Ads for sweaters, sweaters depicted in ads, etc Let's see what's the oldest ad we can find is! Ancient ads is just that! ANCIENT! Can we go back 300+ years?