Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Tremendous cover for booklet produced by Con Edison.









This packaging is verging on the garish/overbold for me, but still interesting; from around 1920.


Jell-O ice cream dessert suggestions from 1925.  Ice cream was often prepared in loaf form to be cut into slices for serving.  Usually I like old-timey ways of things but I'd really prefer my ice cream be roughly spherical.


Tuesday, February 12, 2013

A label like this, with a bunch of nicely illustrated oranges, both whole *and* canned citrus together, is bliss to me.


From time to time in ephemera collection one faces a dilemma of sorts: a genuinely beautiful item that casually depicts racial horror, if genteelly and (as though it were possible) tastefully.



Less directly disturbing, or at least less specific, we have this interesting linen postcard depicting part of the cotton transport along the Mississippi; not dated, unfortunately.


This label is not more than 1.5" in height, so let's doff our collective cap, shall we, so the amount of purty that tiny space was made to contain.




Typical gloriousness from '40s Sunkist promo material; they cared.  They're my favorite brand to collect, followed by Libby's and Dole tied for second.