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We vegetarians are currently having a good chuckle at the carnivores’ faux indignance at being served dead horse instead of dead cow as if the slaughter industry was previously a paragon of moral... 
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Vintage ad for ARMCO, featuring the steelmark which would become the Steelers logo; Good Housekeeping, May 1961.
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The Mondale-Ferraro campaign used the Halloween “Trick Or Treat” theme to get some votes in the bag.
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My oh my, how things have changed. These 25 vintage tech ads are guaranteed to take you back -- and, in most cases, remind you how truly terrible our tastes once were. Via k3hamilton
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"Noel Petter's concept paintings for 1930s consumer packaging sent a clear message to Depression-era shoppers -- forget your troubles, c'mon get happy"
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An antique advertising or trade card for the “Comfort Hip” corset by Helm, Snorf & Watson of North Manchester, Indiana. I’m not sure if we’re supposed to sing it… I cannot; for some of the lyrics make me gag...
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"Father’s Day advertisements are a peek into what we think dads are all about. As cultures change, advertising shifts too, giving us a peek into the social construction of fatherhood."
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Part of the great marketing movement of making things pink to sell them to women…
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Scott A. Lukas, a college professor, began the Gender Ads Project, a website that analyzes women's roles in advertising in 2002. Now there's nearly 4,000 examples on the site.
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Vintage TV commercial for a pre-cold war cold cream preys on more than beauty fears... See a commercial for a cleanser which removes two and a 1/2 times the radiation of other cleansers.
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No, not the bladder leakage panties/adult diapers, this is a vintage Pepsi ad promoting the 'reduced in calories' cola. It reads, in part, "She's sure of herself, and why wouldn't she be! She knows she's a joy to look at -- that her 1956 figure does things for her dress."
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How marketers sometimes co-opt social movements for corporate greed - and, in this case, misogyny. Which is not unlike what individual men have done themselves, twisting "being feminist" into a way to get laid.
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That's the question an initiative called Making Measurement Make Sense -- or 3Ms -- is wrestling with. Backed by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, 4A's, the Association of National Advertisers, the Media Ratings Council, MediaLink and Bain Consulting, 3Ms wants a whole new definition of an ad, based on whether anyone actually saw it. Via Alex Butler
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"Let somebody else's child get his kicks tracking a little kid through a gun sight. Let somebody else's child build a bomb shelter in the hollow of an old tree." Via Alex Butler
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Target learned that the ability to predict our needs and desires comes with the need to do some psychological management as well. Accordingly, they began sneaking baby-related coupons into coupon books that also included other things. So far, Target reports, these women are none the wiser… and thinking of Target as their one-stop baby shop.
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Kitten hips. No, not the furry kind — the “lithe young American” kind, as described in this vintage girdle ad published in Harper’s Bazaar, 1946. You feel and look as...
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Whether or not you want to smell like Madonna, you might want to catch her wearing lingerie (what else?) in the online ad (video below) for her new fragrance, Truth...
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From a movie house organist, entertaining in the 1910s thru the 30s, I have a series of glass magic lantern slides for your...
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Detail from a Fry’s Sandwich Chocolate ad from Picture Post, September 16th 1939.