Art Profile: Even More Ads Of Christmas Past


I had so much fun sharing those vintage Christmas cigarette ads on Monday that I decided to share some more holiday advertisements from long ago.  None of the ads below are for cigarettes.  Instead, they’re for everything from lingerie to guns to cameras.  Some of them have more Christmas spirit than others and a few of them would probably lead to a boycott if they were used today.

The earliest ad below is the one for the “Big Dick” machine gun.  It was published in 1917.  The oldest, for Polaroid cameras, came out in 1978.  Check them all out below:

Artwork of the Day: You Will Always Have A Full House When You Show Fantomas!


I was doing some research on the history of French cinema for an upcoming series of reviews and I came across this charming little advertisement from 1916. I guess this was sent to theater owners to encourage them to show Fantomas.

Would  I show Fantomas is I got this in the mail?  I sure would!  I’d even hire someone to dress up like Fantomas and deal cards outside the theater.  If only I had been born 100 years earlier…