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Art Frahm : Fallen Knickers, Women And Celery (1950s)
Art Frahm (1907–1981) was an American artist best known for his drawing of 1950s pin-ups. Falling panties were his muse and sticks of celery his sunflowers. Frahm’s tableaux feature white women...
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To Home Torture Hell On A Luggage Cart: A Look At Ladies Home Journal 1968
WHAT exactly were women reading fifty years ago? Time to find out. Take a walk with Flashbak through the November 1968 issue of Ladies Home Journal. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the woes of the...
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“A Playground for Men’s Hands” – Vintage Adverts: The Look of Love
A chick on the left, a guy on the right, both giving each other “the look of love” – it’s the perfect formula, and one that has been used countless times in advertising. I suppose it’s supposed to...
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The Golden Age of Meat
circa 1970: Leyton Orient footballer Peter Brabrook at work chopping meat in his butcher’s shop. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images) UP UNTIL the health craze of the 1980s, your average meal...
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Photographs of an Austere and Dour Manchester from 1963
The images of Manchester in 1963 are part of the Town Hall Photographer’s Collection at Manchester City Council’s Central Library archives. Taken by staff photographers, the photos record the work...
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‘Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight’ – Glorious Pictures of the Skegness...
The beach at Skegness, 1948. The first ever Butlin’s opened at Skegness in Lincolnshire in 1936 and was an immediate success – even during its first season the capacity had to be increased from 500 to...
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The Batchelors Foods ‘Soup-Opera’ ads from the 1950s
“Stay-at-home husbands are many wives’ problem – but it was the other way around at our house. A stick-in-the-mud wife, me, always avoiding outings because of housework.” The combination of the ‘gay...
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Lifebuoy B.O. Comics For Nose-Blind Women (1930s-1940s)
Howdy – What a great set of odd images and terrible circumstances, write Ethan Pescoff. Been working on this collection of comic strips for a few years now. Lifebuoy’s “B.O” comics have long been a...
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Brian Griffin – Extraordinary Photographs
“Working as a photographer is incredible. It’s very difficult and I have seen many talented photographers give up, but if you’re passionate enough and are willing to sustain the efforts it takes, it...
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Street Art Posters from New York City (1970- 2001)
‘Amongst artist Joseph Beuys’ innovations was the idea of “social sculpture”, a concept that expands the definition of art to include human activity, and considers art’s potential to transform...
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A Veritable Smorgasbord of Vintage Scandinavian Airline Meals
Scandinavian Airlines 1955 Scandinavian Airlines, usually known as SAS, is the flag carrier of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, which together form Scandinavia. SAS is an abbreviation of the company’s full...
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The Ink Beast Parade (1903 – 1908)
The Queen City Printing Ink Company, of Cincinnati (“The Oldest and Largest Printing Ink Works in The West” – with big branches in Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia), hired Augustus Jansson (a...
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“Traveller’s Joy”– The Key to the Countryside – Beautiful Shell Adverts from...
1954: Arranged and painted by Edith and Rowland Hilder From the 1920s and into the 1950s the Shell Oil Company produced some wonderful advertising posters and some said, the most beautiful the country...
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Captivating P & O Shipping Line Adverts
P&O Cruises is the oldest cruise line in the world, originating 1822, with the formation of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The company first operated a shipping line with...
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Brilliant Posters, Stills and Ephemera of the James Bond Film and Book –...
Thunderball, although the fourth film, was actually the ninth James Bond book and the eight full-length novel. It generally went down well with most critics, “Good living, sex and violent action: a...
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Greet the Dawn! – Labour Party Election Posters from the 20th Century
Industry must serve the people – not enslave them! Vote Labour for public ownership not private monopoly’ – Labour election poster from 1945 She laboured for you… Now it’s – Labour for her – 1945 The...
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Selling ‘Solid Sunshine’– The Art of the Empire Marketing Board
Christmas Puddings EMB The Empire Marketing Board was formed in May 1926 by the Colonial Secretary Leo Amery to promote inter-Empire trade and to persuade consumers to ‘Buy Empire’. The board had three...
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Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go! Brilliant 1980s Pop Music Publicity Photos
You liked those publicity stills of 1980s bands so much we’ve pulled together another gallery. Diana Ross Press PhotoRCA Records/USA (1984) Bob Geldof Press PhotoColumbia Records Missing Persons Press...
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When Tobacco Companies Used Doctors to Sell Cigarettes
In 1991, the ongoing scandal of cigarette advertising in the U.S. reached an ugly climax, after decades of deception, when the American Medical Association revealed findings that young children more...
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Gorgeous Japanese Firework Illustrations From The Late 1800s
These illustrations of 花火, Hanabi (fireworks or “fire flowers”), advertised Japan’s Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks companies in the late 19th century. The founder of Hirayama, Jinta...
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