One of our "trailing threads" here are posters, which we like, and which we typically post on Saturdays, if we get around to it, which more often than not, we do not.
As the computer files on which the posters were saved are about to go, as there's a lot of them, and we're going into a new year, I thought I'd put some of those that were saved to post, but which weren't posted, up.
More often than not, I don't comment on the posters. Some of them deserve comment, however, so its here. Comment yourself if you feel like it, and if feel like, please comment.
The poster is an old Hires Root Beer advertisement.
In a year in which Mia, the Native American woman on the cover of Land O Lake dairy products, was sent packing as culturally insensitive, this old poster no doubt also is. Indeed, she reminds me of the Navajo Trucking of a blue eyed ostensibly Native American woman still on the doors of their trucking fleet. Still, this blog chronicles the century old and the poster is visually attractive.
What role does birch bark play in Root Beer?
1920 was a banner year for women and we've posted a lot of magazine covers that dealt with that. We missed the one above from July, 1920, however.
Magazine illustrations of the period, we'd note, were really art. That's something that's really been lost in the past century.
We also saved a lot of World War Two related posters that never went up. Some of them are below.
The poster above is interesting in that the printing style retained the World War One appearance, even though its a World War Two vintage poster. Which is a nice way to note that we also saved a few World War One era posters we didn't get around to putting up, in part because our century retrospectives dealt with the 1920, and not 1914 through 1918.
Cigarettes actually became a big deal during World War One. They weren't nearly as popular before the Great War. The results would be disaterous.
The thought of Liberty calling on an old style rotary dial phone is a bit odd. Not one of the better posters of the Great War.
1920 was a tragic year in the Russian Civil War; seeing the Whites driven out of Crimea and into exile, if they survived to make it into exile. We covered that a bit this past year. Surprisingly, given the conditions in which it was fought, it generated a lot of poster art, including this White poster from below.
1940, like 2020, was a census year. The Federal Government according issued this poster hoping to get the populace to be counted.
2020 turned out to be an oddly controversial year this way, having to do ultimately with the counting of illegal residents in the country. The topic of who to count is an oddly old one in American history going all the way back to the adoption of the Constitution which saw a compromise that slaves and Indians would be counted as less than a full person. As the count determines representation in the House of Representatives, how people who cannot vote are counted has accordingly been a very long lasting feature of American politics.
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