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Vintage advertisements?

Kahuna

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I guess one reason I've always been attracted to vintage advertisements is that my dad studied advertising in the 40's. Although he never went into it full time, he did do a bit of freelancing and I remember him being at the drawing board with his airbrush quite a bit when I was a kid. When dad died in '95 we found some of the watercolors he had taken up in later years but I didn't find any of the stuff I remembered from when I was a kid.
About a year after I was cleaning out the garage of the house I'd inherited from my folks, where I'd been living since I was a kid, and found a suitcase full of his early art projects. Two of them hang in my kitchen now. Unfortunately these scans don't do justice to the amount of detail in them. I have an enormous amount of respect for those old admen and illustrators who did everything by hand. It's pretty much a lost art these days.
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Kahuna

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Just found this one on Boing Boing. It looks like a parody but this is an actual ad that ran during WW2 when industries were stopping production of their normal products and gearing up for wartime manufacturing.
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A couple more Japanese ads

Chuyo Cigarettes, 1900

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Sakura Beer, ca. 1912-16
advert produced for the Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) market. Note the influence of Art Nouveau with a style reminiscent of Alphonse Mucha.

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