Issued as part of Accurate’s architectural detailing system, this trade sheet functioned as a working template for builders and draftsmen, showing standardized profiles for door and window weatherproofing systems in use during the interwar period. Accurate Metal Weather Strip Co., a leading supplier to both commercial and residential builders, regularly.....

Vauxhall sold passenger cars, electric and light commercial vehicles under the Vauxhall marque, and formerly sold vans, buses, and trucks under the Bedford Vehicles brand. Vauxhall had been the second-largest selling car brand in the UK for more than two decades.

This brochure is historically significant for how it documents Daytona's pivotal transition from a seasonal seaside village to the 'World Center of Racing.' While it advertises a hotel, the interior photography focuses heavily on the automobile culture that defined the roaring twenties in Florida, specifically the land speed record attempts.....

A book of recipes - "a number of them hitherto unpublished" - presented to promote buying a home and moving to Cooper City, Florida.Background Information:Cooper City is a city in Broward County, Florida. The city is named for Morris Cooper, who founded the community in 1959.

This story actually begins with another battery manufacturer, Duracell. In 1973 Duracell used a slew of pink bunny toys in a commercial to advertise that the longest lasting battery was their own. The ad ran for many years. Thus, it became recognizable enough to parody. Energizer decided to poke fun.....

Eight-panel pamphlet to accompany the General Motors Futurama Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair featuring a map designating GM's overseas presence from 1964-65.It shows GM's overseas operations in Africa, Europe, South America, and the South Pacific. You'll spot distributors, manufacturing plants, and subsidiaries marked with  little icons scattered.....

A scarce survival from Italy’s grand-hotel era, this felt advertising mat represents the refined graphic identity of CIGA Hotels, a luxury hotel consortium closely associated with elite tourism, diplomacy, and postwar European travel. Such items were rarely preserved, making intact examples uncommon today.Historical NoteCompagnia Italiana Grandi Alberghi, known as CIGA.....

An Uncommon Advertising Flyer for 1906 White Fang by Jack London.The other books are When Love Speaks by Will Fayne; The Romance of John Brainbridge; A Lady of Rome by F. Marion Crawford;  Coniston by Winston Churchill; Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister; Disenchanted by Pierre Loti; and The Amulet by.....

The “Little Jane Breakfast Food Team” was a comedic trio featured on KFEQ Radio in St. Joseph, Missouri, during the 1930s. The group included performers known by humorous pseudonyms: Gangle Shanks, Uncle Charlie, and Sheep Herder. They were part of KFEQ's early programming, which was characterized by a mix of music.....

+++ A representative example of mid-20th-century Canadian tourism ephemera, illustrating the intersection of travel culture, regional commerce, and graphic design in the postwar period.Genres: Travel ephemera, advertising ephemera, regional tourismSubjects: Quebec City tourism, mid-century travel culture, Canadian advertising history, Château Frontenac, Ste. Anne de Beaupré, postwar tourism development.

Antwerp: E. Stockmans & Co, 1921.