Weird Vintage

Weird Vintage

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Ads, illustrations, and photographs of a vintage or antiquated nature that make you just a tad bit confused/alarmed/amused. Occasionally NSFW.

Juicy Bite Apples, c. 1910 (via Vintage Ad Browser)

Spam, the “meat in a can”, 1946 (via Vintage Ad Browser)

Tootsie Roll ad, 1930 (via Vintage Ad Browser)

Barnum & Bailey’s “Marvelous Foot-Ball Dogs, 1900 (via Library of Congress)

dropboxofcuriosities:

Fritz, a television celebrity bulldog, is shaved by a Californian barber. April, 1961.

George Burns and Gracie Allen for Spam, 1940 (via Vintage Ad Browser)

The Ringling Brothers featuring Crandall and his comic burlesque equestrian act on his riding mule “Thunderbolt”, 1899 (via Library of Congress)

hollyhocksandtulips:

“I like self-service meats”
Dupont Cellophane, 1954

dreikameraden:

Kriegsmarine and monkey

denisebefore:

Royal Navy anti-gas training school
vanderson 1934

Band and clowns at Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado by Lee Russell, 1940 (via Library of Congress)

Rodeo clown in Miles City, Montana, 1939 (via Library of Congress)

psaaok:

“NICE GUY… with an undeserved black eye.”
Raytheon Bonded Electronic Technicians, 1952.
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Mary Garden perfume ad, 1920 (via Vintage Ad Browser)

grimmperiodikum:

French actress Etchika Choureau