April 2013
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“Opium Dream - a magnificent new color for your nails to wear”. Chen Yu ad from American Hairdresser magazine, 1944
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Depressing Valentine’s Day poem, 1951
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Toni ad, 1952
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Depressed woman. Photo by Angelo Pinto for Today’s Woman story: “New light on the unhappy wife”, March 1952.
98bottlesblog asked: Fun blog! will you be posting some vintage tiki stuff?
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Robert Hilbert illustration for the Today’s Woman story “The Vacant Face of Love”, 1951
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February, 1951. Today’s Woman, detail from Ipana toothpaste ad.
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The joys of having a freezer. October 1951, start preparing for The Holidays!
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I am not sure which magazine this is from. I have a … I don’t know… 25 or 30 pound box of magazine pages and scraps that I’m scanning and throwing out (my hoarding is out of control!) I’m keeping the boxes of complete mags, but not the ones without covers or that have had stuff cut out of them, or like this box full: just loose pages. There will be a number of scans...
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Cute “Teen Scene” font, 1951
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1951, “Witch doctors won’t help… it takes White Magic”
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Corsees girdle ad. “Streamlined beauty for modern living”.
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1951. “Eddie Teal, 24-year-old paraplegic, performs his tightrope balancing act in the musical revue staged and put on the road by 18 wheel-chair vets.”
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Detail from Chase & Sanborn coffee ad, 1951
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Mascot for Nob Hill Coffee “Be Coffee Wise”, 1951
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James Mason & Ava Gardner, 1951 (Pandora and the Flying Dutchman)
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Dustjacket, Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictonary
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NEW! Post Sugar Crisp! 1951
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It Must Be Tollhouse Time! 1951 Detail from Nestle chocolate chip ad.
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Detail from a Nescafe ad
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Pirate canary? Not sure why French’s makes him into a pirate, but maybe that was their thing. Detail from French’s Bird Seed ad,
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Ideal Pet Food ad, Family Circle 1951
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Detail from 1951 ad for cooking with gas (American Gas Association)
. Caloric CP gas range.
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Gossip Girls, 1951. Detail from Niagra Laundry Starch ad.
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Hysterically Happy Housewife. Detail from a White King detergent ad, Oct 1951
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Detail from a Wilson Products ad in Family Circle, October 1951
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Outdoor Life announces “The new S. & W. .357 Magnum revolver”, June 1935.
fen1994 asked: Hi. I've been "researching" an image and it's led me to your page as the most likely person to know about it, and it's silly but I'd just like to know um the artist's name. It's an image from 1955 Esquire Magasine and it's pink with a woman with pink hair leaning forward, legs straight hands behind back, wearing short pink shorts(?) and a black corset...
March 2013
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gwrpinups asked: Hi, you have a terrific blog. I saw a comment of yours recently and hope that I can answer some of your questions. I've been painting retro style pin up illustrations as sort of a hobby for the past few years and posting them on tumblr. Many of these are copies and I do these because it is fun, challenging and a way to learn about and connect with artists whose work I admire. Although your...
January 2013
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Selling them ALL!
So, all the pulps that I have scanned? They’re all being listed on eBay even as we speak. Lots of 5 starting at $3.95. If you love a bit of pulp-y fun, off to eBay you go! (eBay user ID: tikitacky)
pizza-saurus asked: So in your opinion, was Erskine Caldwell primarily a smut writer? He's my english teacher's grandfather, so this would give me a reason to mess with her :D
