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Our northern neighbor.

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Aunt Jemima, 1954

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Silver ‘67 de Cutex . Año 1967

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Grand Canyon National Park

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Evansville Press, Indiana, October 23, 1913

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Public Collectors is now on Instagram. The page is entirely focused on photos I shoot and things I scan in public libraries while working on the Public Collectors booklet series Library Excavations. The next best thing to haunting Harold Washington Library in Chicago with me, and a window into my creative process with those publications. Follow if you like: @libraryexcavations

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CraniTonic Hair-Food, 1903.

From Taschen’s “All-American Ads 1900-1919”.

“CraniTonic, The Food that Does The Hair Good

‘Purity’

Makes Hair Grow Stops Hair Falling Out Prevents and Cures Dandruff

The Neglect of Your Hair May Be Its Ruin

If you have neglected your hair and scalp or have any serious hair or scalp trouble, and are alarmed or worried because you have used or done the wrong thing and do not know what to do, read the following offer and start now, to stop your trouble.

350,000 triple size bottles to be distributed

Collier’s Weekly has over 350,000 paid subscribers, all of whom would find pleasure and benefit in the use of Cranitonic Hair Food, if they but knew how delightfully refreshing its use is to all who suffer from dandruff, itching scalp, falling hair. We have therefore empowered the Chief Chemist attached to our Laboratories to send to every reader of Collier’s Weekly, as an Introductory Offer, a Large Two Pound Physicians’ Size, $3.00 bottle of Cranitonic Hair Food with two cakes of Cranitonic Shampoo Soap (regular price 50cts a cake) and one tube of cream (regular price $1.00) making $5.00 worth of the Greatest Hair and Scalp Food in the World, all for $1.00. Post Office and Express Money Orders, Checks and Drafts and Safer than Currency or Stamps. Any of the above can be sent.

Cranitonic Hair and Scalp Food is absolutely pure and non-alcoholic

Cranitonic Hair and Scalp Food destroys the microbe that causes dandruff and falling hair, and nourishes the hair-root back to health. Makes hair grow - prevents hair splitting - renders coarse hair soft and silky. Cleanses the scalp of all irritation and keeps it healthful. The life of the hair is in the scalp. Restores gray hair to its natural color, not by dyeing, but by gently stimulating the pigment cells that give color to the hair.

Cranitonic Hair and Scalp Food is absolutely pure, harmless, contains no grease, no vulgar perfume, sediment, dye matter or dangerous drugs. It is pure, clean, clear as a crystal, delightful to use and certain in its results.

‘Two years ago my hair was so badly burned that I was obliged to stay indoors. My doctor prescribed Cranitonic. The result was magical: the burned hair all came out and a healthy new growth took its place. My photo shows its present condition.’

'The diagnosis made by the Chief Physician of your Medical Department was so accurate, his attention so courteous and the results of the Cranitonic Hair and Scalp Food so beneficial that I feel it my duty to write you and send photograph.’

'My success with Cranitonic has been so great that I feel if I could convince the public of the great benefits that can be obtained from its use that all persons with poor hair would at once adopt Cranitonic.’

'My hair was dry and brittle and falling out in an alarming manner. A friend suggested Cranitonic. Its use restored my hair to health. It is soft, strong and easy to arrange. I have recommended Cranitonic to many friends, all of whom praise it.’

For Sale by Dealers in - THREE SIZES - for One, Two and Five Dollars the Bottle. Sent to Any Point on Order. EXPRESS PREPAID.

HAIR EDUCATION All readers of Collier’s Weekly who are troubled about their hair and who would like a microscopic examination of their hair, and will call or send a few hairs pulled from the head, or a sample from the daily combings, will receive from our Medical Department, by mail, Absolutely Free, a full report and diagnosis.

HAIR-FOOD FREE To enable the public to observe its Purity, Learn of its Possibilities and what it has done for others, a Trial bottle of Cranitonic Hair-Food and a book entitled Hair Education will be sent, by mail, prepaid, to all who send name and complete address, and Ten Cents in stamps or silver to pay postage.”

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1977 Kodak Ektasound movie camera

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Let’s have a “Blast to the Past” at Disneyland on May 2 to May 6, 1988! One day passports were only $21.50!

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BVD, 1913

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Vintage matchbox labels

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How we do things at Buckeye, Tex.

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Cooley’s Cork Corset advertising card.

Date: ca. 1870-1900

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Clairol ad, 1974 (via)

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D Duncan

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Stuff from my Childhood

Vintage 60s Plastic Rain Bonnet By Ragan

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Eudonia Primtree

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Rainy Day Fun :O)

Vintage Pink Stormy Weather Rain Bonne

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General Motors Corp, 1961