Sunday Adverts: Franklin Mutual Life Insurance Company
The Franklin Fire Insurance Company, featured in this September 1874 ad, was chartered in 1851 in...
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Sunday Adverts: Nik-O-Lok Toilet Lock Company
Ad Courtesy of Private Collection of Bradley Keen The Nik-O-Lok Company, which manufactures coin...
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Sunday Ads: 1910 Indy Christmas
Christmas ads of 1910 are all over the map. From milk to diamonds and well wishes from all forms...
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Sunday Adverts: Cafes of Mass Ave
Who doesn’t miss this once prolific form of advertising? It seems at one time the Around the...
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Sunday Advert: Do You Ride One?
If you think “history repeats itself,” is just a hackneyed phrase, think again....
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Sunday Adverts: School 23rd & Alabama
The year was 1924 and there was a college at 23rd & Alabama Streets? How fascinating that...
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Sunday Ads: Parquet, not a creamy spread
The warmer weather inevitably makes me grateful for wood floors–just seems to make the house...
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Sunday Ads: 150 Years Ago of Boots, Groceries and Promotional Posters
Of course, it’s we know we needed food and foot coverage 150 years ago, but you don’t...
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Sunday Ads: Imperial Roofing Tiles in Meridian Kessler
This was a nifty find–and advert for Imperial Roofing Tiles, offices in Chicago and New...
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Sunday Adverts: A full page of Fountain Square
Can’t recall when I found this and don’t know the exact date, but clearly, it’s...
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Sunday Adverts: House Movers, 1897
Considering the recent ‘to-do’ over the planned demolition of approximately 2,000...
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