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Vintage Colgate Ads

05-Nov-08

The beautiful ad above is from the February 1926 issue of Delineator magazine. The lovely salesgirl with her 1920’s bobbed hair is offering you Colgate’s Ribbon Dental Cream. According to Wikipedia, it seems that this product was first offered in 1896 as the first toothpaste to be sold in a collapsible tube (before that, since [...]

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Exercises for the Home Gymnasium, 1926

03-Nov-08

…and a fig for dignity if we can keep our waistline slim and our spirits young!
The image and quote above come from the February, 1926 issue of Delineator magazine. The article was written by Fielding H. Yost, who was credited as the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, University of Michigan. (And look, here he is on [...]

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Beauty and Brains

03-Oct-08

The wonderful page above comes from a 1926 yearbook, The Quair. It was created by the class of 1927 at the New Jersey College for Women of Rutgers University. This book is incredible! The styles that the women wore are great, lots of modified flapper looks, and a surprisingly large number of them would look [...]

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