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packman

(16,296 posts) Thu Dec 7, 2017, 12:31 PM Dec 2017

Banner Ladies - Vintage pixs of advertising

My favorite -The Heinz Pickle Lady

A peculiar advertising photographic pictorial was devised during the 1870s, in which women in particular were hired by retailers to pose holding signs heralding businesses, their dresses and bodies decorated with life-size objects related to the business. Even their hairdo’s were used to hold up products for the camera.

More beauties:

http://www.messynessychic.com/2017/12/05/banner-ladies-the-human-billboards-of-yesteryear/

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Banner Ladies - Vintage pixs of advertising (Original Post) packman Dec 2017 OP

Interesting! The lady with the horsehoes will soon be out of luck, though. n/t sl8 Dec 2017 #1

sl8

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1. Interesting! The lady with the horsehoes will soon be out of luck, though. n/t

Reply to packman (Original post)

Thu Dec 7, 2017, 01:21 PM

Dec 2017

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