Modern Mechanics - Feb 1930
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Category: Architecture | Air Travel and Airlines | 1930s
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Category: Food | Hygiene | Advertising | Babies and Toddlers | 1970s
New York Daily News - Aug 6, 1944
New York Daily News - Dec 30, 1945
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Category: Death | Inheritance and Wills | Cats | 1940s
Clay Tyson was a stand-up comedian and a long time opening act for James Brown and the Famous Flame (and James Brown and the JBs).
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Category: Humor | Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings | Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers | 1960s
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares | Patents | 1990s
One of the most (in)famous protagonists was Henry T. Helmbold (1826–1892), who started his patent medicine business in 1846 as a retail druggist with “Helmbold’s Extract Buchu—cures diabetes, gravel, brick-dust deposits, irritations of the bladder and diseases arising from exposure or imprudence, etc.” and other medicines. He opened his first store in Philadelphia in 1850, the largest and best-known in New York in 1862. By 1865 Helmbold’s buchu was the bestselling patent medicine on the US market. For this, he spent enormous amounts of money on advertising, mostly in newspapers: ∼US$ 500,000 (about 10 million US$ today) each for the years 1869–71. For the distribution of his products, Helmbold had his own 4c postage stamp (Figure 4) (The Historian, 1912; Young, 1961).
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil | Africa | Nineteenth Century
Miami News - May 2, 1924
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Category: Government | Officials | Farming | 1920s
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Category: Movies | Debuts, Christenings, Launches and Reboots | 1950s | Europe
Bad Waitress
Good Waitress
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Category: Movies | Restaurants | 1950s
One Little Indian, Grant Munro, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
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Category: Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic | Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand | PSA’s | Stop-motion Animation | 1950s | North America | Native Americans | Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows