Funny Vintage Ads (23)
Advertising has always been an interesting way to look at history. But when you see these vintage advertisements, the past seems a lot stranger than you thought. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 From the late 19th century to the mid-1960s, advertising using stereotypical images of African-Americans was pervasive throughout the U.S. Blacks were made to appear subservient and ignorant as well as ugly and grotesque; more simian than human. And if domestic work or menial labor was involved, blacks were depicted as being best suited for the job. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 T he Cadillac Car Company (named for the French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Cadillac, who founded the city of Detroit in 1701) was founded in August 1902. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Five men who appeared in Marlboro-related advertisements died of smoking-related diseases, earning Marlboro cigarettes, specifically Marlboro Reds, the nickname "Cowboy killers." 🔻 🔻...