Photo of the Ham and Eggs Queen with the World’s Fair Milkmaid and an unknown gentleman. Taken in 1939.
Advertisement for Hollywood Mask cosmetics from Modern Romance, 1937.
Anybody want to let me know what shade “Rachel” is? WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THE COLOR RACHEL? This has bothered me for so long!
Courtesy Duke University’s Ad*Access Project.
Advertisement for the Eugene Winter Wave from Good Housekeeping, 1933.
Courtesy Duke University’s Ad*Access Project.
Miss Mary Virginia Yellott and Miss Mary Carolyn Henry walking their ducks in Washington, D.C. Created sometime between 1925 and 1932.
THEY ARE WALKING THEIR DUCKS. This is incredible.
Credit due to the Library of Congress, naturally.
“Angel in the Woods.”
Photograph of Jennie Rooney taken by Ephraim Burt Trimpey of Baraboo, Wisconsin, c. 1930.
From the Wisconsin Historical Society.
“Trimpey House,” c. 1930 in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
Exterior of the residence of Edwin B. and Alice Kent Trimpey, showing front entrance with columns, with a porch and plants above. A cat looks out the window on the left. The home was located at 719 Oak Street.
I would very much like to live here, cat included.
From the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Advice for the menfolk from The Palm Beach Post - Mar 10, 1937.
For more excellent vintage advice, check out http://questionableadvice.tumblr.com! Without it, I would be single and undainty. I would probably also have smallpox :(
Want a bit of vintage love advice from 1939? Dorothy Dix, author of “How to Win and Hold a Husband,” offers tips on how to snag a lad and make him yours! The following is an excerpt of Dix’s insight into a proper love life.
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Ad for Irresistible Cosmetics, 1935.
“Use Irresistible Perfume and know the mad joy of being utterly irresistible. Men will crowd around you… paying you compliments… begging for dates. Your friends will envy your strange new power to win love.”
They really didn’t mess around in 30s cosmetic ads!
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“-a picked bevy of beauteous youngsters specially trained by Coty to act as guides and charm counselors at the charm center of the [1939] New York World’s Fair (Maison Coty). Here they are going through their powder puff drill in anticipation of their duties after the official opening of the Charm Center.”
