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Tue, 2025-05-06 09:28 - Liggett and Myers is cashing in on the legendary character Robin Hood, but even more so on the successful movie about the legend that premiered in 1938 – “The Adventures of Robin Hood” starring Errol Flynn.

But why a female Robin Hood? Cigarette ads heavily targeted women in the 1930s. Tobacco companies saw a new market to exploit by associating smoking with concepts of female empowerment, modernity, and sophistication.

©Ad for Chesterfields on the back cover of “Mechanix Illustrated,” December, 1938.
1 day ago ago at , Washington Forest, Virginia, United States by Leo Boudreau.

Wed, 2025-05-07 09:50 - The Opera Society (1955)

©The Opera Society (1955)
2 hours ago ago by Bart Solenthaler.

Wed, 2025-05-07 14:16 - Associated British and Irish Railways was a marketing organisation jointly formed by the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMSR), London & North Eastern Railway (LNER), and Southern Railway (SR) in 1934, later joined by Great Western Railway (GWR) and Great Southern Railways (GSR) in 1935. Most of its promotional material was aimed at the North American market and it produced annual editions of folders giving information about the services and destinations served by the railway companies.

One of the folders produced was that of a railway map of the whole of the UK and Ireland showing the lines and ferry services of the member railways. This issue, with an interesting but uncredited cover, uses an interesting map. The Philips cartography would, in post-war years, go on to be used by the newly nationalised British Railways after 1948, and it appears to have been first introduced by the London & North Eastern Railway in c.1936; it is interesting to see the use of the company's adopted typeface, Gill Sans, used for place names. This folder makes me think that for ABR use, Philips may have been commissioned, possibly by the LNER, to extend this style of coverage to the whole outline network in the UK and Éire.

It has been scanned in four overlapping sections to save damage to a fragile item.

©Railway Map of Great Britain and Ireland : Associated British and Irish Railways : map folder : nd [c.1938] : cover
0 sec ago ago by mikeyashworth.

Wed, 2025-05-07 14:50 - Reklame aus dem Jahr 1955

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Wed, 2025-05-07 14:35 - Reklame aus dem Jahr 1955

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