amylsacks' photos
Bernardin Home Canning Guide (6),1962
Bernardin Home Canning Guide (5),1962
Bernardin Home Canning Guide (4),1962
Bernardin Home Canning Guide (3),1962
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I like how they're both all dressed up in their Sunday best just for their trip to the pantry. These fashions seem a little passe' for 1962, though. Perhaps there was some recycling going on.
Bernardin Home Canning Guide (2),1962
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"Home Canning: A Service To Yourself And Your Family. The purpose of this book is to help home canners do a better, more thrifty job and make the widest, most healthful use of home-canned foods."
Bernardin Home Canning Guide (1),1962
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Front cover of a 74-page promo published by Bernardin, Inc. of Evansville, Indiana.
Originally posted to flickr on January 31st, 2011.
Stetson Hat Ad, 1955
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Jeez! What is with the massive chin cleft? Is this John Travolta's dad?
From the October 17th issue of Time magazine.
Bake It Easy! (6), 1961
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I wish I knew the illustrator's name. I'm completely in love with these little sponge-wielding Cubist masterworks.
Bake It Easy! (5), 1961
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...But especially, this unusually laid back and amused version of Mrs. America. If anyone could make you embrace the wonder of yeast packets, it would be her.
Bake It Easy! (4), 1961
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Really, everything about this booklet rocks. The chipper typefaces, the colors... Not to mention the recurring demand for Granny's ghost to pop in and thank you and Standard for showing her up...
Bake It Easy! (3), 1961
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"Here they are! Flip-the-switch recipes for your electric mixer. Your mixer does the hard work-- to help you bake a name for yourself!"
Bake It Easy! (2), 1961
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"...Yeast baking makes people eat up and take notice!"
Bad wordplay aside, the graphics here are no-holds-barred adorable.
Bake It Easy! (1), 1961
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Young American Miss, you put down those Elvis singles and that home permanent kit and come downstairs and bake for your family right now!!
Front and back covers from a baking promo featuring Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast, published by Standard Brands, Inc.
(Originally posted to flickr on February 6th, 2011.)
American Optical/Flame Eyeglass Ad, 1955
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You just know one of these decorator clip things was doomed to end up in your bowl of tomato bisque or between your typewriter keys at some point.
From the April issue of Sunset magazine.
The Late Garden, c1939
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...So I just guessed at the age, based on the typeface. The layouts themselves seem like they'd still be stylish today.
The Early Garden, c1939
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This photo and the next one were both folded into an unrelated magazine when I found them. There's no additional information on the back...
Duraglas Ad, 1947
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Does anyone still eat this stuff? I'm pretty sure I haven't even thought about it in forty years.
From the April issue of Ladies Home Journal .
Cooking For A Man (5), 1953
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In conclusion, just keep plying them with meat, Ladies. And lots of it. That's the key to all happiness.
