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A Sunday Sampler - of CONTAGION!
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( Two final ads )Stay healthy, Vintage Ads family!
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D is for DANGER DAYS!
Mar. 22nd, 2013 08:03 amwrite-light.livejournal.comFrom the Children's Health Department! (of Ralston Purina Co., 1927)
Just the first paragraph is a gem:
Inside that room there are whispers -- tiptoes -- tear-stained cheeks. ... Danger Days have come.
( TWO MORE! )
Just the first paragraph is a gem:
Inside that room there are whispers -- tiptoes -- tear-stained cheeks. ... Danger Days have come.
( TWO MORE! )
This must be a result of the influenza epidemic of 1918.
I wonder what the "Magic Blackboard" was, or if the 32-page brochure is around...
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1976 Swine Flu Propaganda
Feb. 21st, 2013 11:20 pmnoluck-boston.livejournal.comPoor Dottie at the end.
Yellow Fever, 3 of 3
Mar. 23rd, 2012 08:02 amwrite-light.livejournal.comMy previous Yellow Fever posts bring me to this point: Epidemic disease to sell vodka? Not so awesome, Smirnoff. :S
Smirnoff, 1971
Very contagious. -_-
Smirnoff, 1971
Very contagious. -_-
Yellow Fever, 2 of 3
Mar. 23rd, 2012 07:57 amwrite-light.livejournal.comThe causal connection of mosquitos/yellow fever was established by army medical doctor Walter Reed (for whom the medical center is named) and his Cuban associate Carlos Finlay only in 1900, by means of experiments on soldiers dying of the disease in Cuba (and Panama, where the canal project claimed an incredible number of lives.
Squibb was riding on those coattails when it printed this somewhat racist ad about the "cleansing of the tropics", featuring Dr. Reed front and center, but the satisfaction in having proved it was mosquito-borne and curable was at this point only 25 years old.
Squibb, 1928 (now Bristol Myers Squibb)
from periodpaper.com
Squibb was riding on those coattails when it printed this somewhat racist ad about the "cleansing of the tropics", featuring Dr. Reed front and center, but the satisfaction in having proved it was mosquito-borne and curable was at this point only 25 years old.
Squibb, 1928 (now Bristol Myers Squibb)
from periodpaper.com
Yellow Fever 1 of 3
Mar. 23rd, 2012 07:40 amwrite-light.livejournal.comIn one of the stories I wrote, yellow fever played a key role; specifically, the yellow fever epidemics of the 1870s, which nearly wiped Memphis, Tennessee off the map. It wasn't until nearly the end of the 19th century that anyone even knew how it was transmitted, or that mosquitos were the vector, so it was truly a hideous plague. I highly recommend The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby.
Early ads promised all sorts of things as curatives, like this one from 1880:
Warner's Safe* Cure, 1880
*safe, here, refers to the metal safe in which they kept the cures - you didn't think ad doublespeak was a recent invention, did you? Read more about Warner's HERE.
A further ad for a quack blood oxygenator device I've posted about before:
Early ads promised all sorts of things as curatives, like this one from 1880:
Warner's Safe* Cure, 1880
*safe, here, refers to the metal safe in which they kept the cures - you didn't think ad doublespeak was a recent invention, did you? Read more about Warner's HERE.
A further ad for a quack blood oxygenator device I've posted about before:
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