Sunday Adverts: Prest-o-lite
What would become known as the Prest-o-lite Battery Company, Inc., in this 1941 advertisement...
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Tag: Sunday ads
Sunday Adverts: Leon Tailoring
In 1905, Leo Ettinger immigrated from Austria to Indiana and opened Leon Tailoring. This ad, from...
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Sunday Adverts: Kingan & Co.
These days, bacon is everywhere – on sandwiches, in omelettes, and in cupcake icing. Back...
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Sunday Adverts: 1910 Southbend Comes to Indy
Their first automobile was an electric car, introduced in 1902 and the first gasoline powered...
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Sunday Advert: Riley’s Bowen Merrill
In acknowledgment of Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley’s birthday (Occtober 7, 1849), it...
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Sunday Adverts: L. E. Morrison & Co
“TRUNKS. BEE HIVE TRUNK FACTORY. GOODYEAR’S RUBBER GOODS. RUBBER” lined the...
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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 Adverts: Advertising, 1911 Mad Men
This ad from the Star in April 1911 reminded me of Don Draper’s notorious diatribe against...
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Sunday Adverts: Treat and Warren
With all of Indianapolis aflutter in anticipation of the Indy 500, it gets me thinking about its...
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Sunday Advert: Indiana Workforce, 1965
Normally at HI, the goal is to keep subject matter at least 50 years old. (Hey, if it’s good...
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Sunday Advert: Manicures in the 1890s
Today’s advert brought to you by Single. Women. Entrepreneurs. by Erin Albert Check us out,...
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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: Citizen’s Gas 1928
Nothing is constant but change, the saying goes- so Citizen’s Gas is no exception. If you...
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