Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: Beef Tea for Beefcake

A beefy gentleman. Does anyone else find this 1901 Armour’s Vigoral advertisement a little… revealing? Perhaps you knew that Beef Tea was as popular as Darjeeling or Earl Grey in Indianapolis around the turn of...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ad: the Model Clothing Store, 1895

From 1895 is this advertisement for the Model Clothing store. How children’s fashions have changed! The Model was located at 41-49 East Washington Street and 2-22 South Pennsylvania Street in the late 1880s and 1890s....

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