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1940s · 1950s

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1940s Fortune Vintage Ads

1947 Erie Railroad Plant Location Service Ad - "THAT'S 16 BILLION DOLLARS ringing in your ears!"

1947 San Antonio as an industrial location Ad - "San Antonio's Climate Lowers Industrial Production Costs"

1947 International Minerals & Chemical Corporation industrial services Ad - "industrial empire of the midwest ... supplies America and the world with a myriad of essential industrial products"

1947 Hughes Rock Bit Ad - "The 'Impenetrable' Barrier"

1947 Vapor RADOR Anticipating Control Ad - "No Matter What Accommodations They Have!"

1947 Lykes Lines New C type express cargo vessels Ad - "LYKES NEW SHIPS – FASTER SERVICE TO YOUR WORLD MARKETS!"

1947 LaMonte Safety Paper for Checks Ad - "Discerning bankers know that checks are 'calling cards' too"

1947 Pittsburgh Paints Color Dynamics Ad - "Color Dynamics"

1947 Westinghouse Electric Corporation 57 acre plant in Santa Clara County Ad - "62 New Industries during the past 42 months"

1947 The H.K. Ferguson Co. Industrial Engineering and Building Services Ad - "WORK/ABILITY SPEEDS OUTPUT, CUTS COSTS"

1947 Cleveland Industrial Location Services Ad - "THE BEST LOCATION IN THE NATION"

1947 Geon Polyvinyl Materials Ad - "Picture of a dry fly fisherman"

1947 Container Corporation of America Packaging Ad - "IDAHO — annual purchases: $300 million — mostly packaged."

1947 Foote Bros. Power Units and Aircraft Quality Gears Ad - "We Like Tough Jobs!"

1947 New York Central Freight Rail Service Ad - "KEY Executive picks New York Central for KEY Ports"

1947 Honeywell Automatic Controls and Brown Industrial Instruments Ad - "Automatic Controls for the Nation"

1947 Comptometer adding-calculating machines Ad - "DOG TALKS!"

1947 Hercules Insecticides (Toxaphene, Thanut, DDT) Ad - "problem... solution result..."

1947 Mallory School Sound System Components Ad - "This 'Little Red Schoolhouse' Has a Thousand Teachers"

1947 John Bean Speed Sprayer and High Pressure Mast Sprayer Ad - ""Language" That Insects Understand"

1947 Galbestos Q-Panels Ad - "Rock-bound Steel and Hung in a Jiffy"

1947 U.S. Savings Bonds Payroll Savings Plan Ad - "Save the easy way..buy your bonds through payroll savings"

1947 Jenkins Valves Ad - "Better cut maintenance costs to the bone, boss!"

1947 Mead Papers Ad - ""CALL FOR...""

1947 Chicago and Northern Illinois Educational and Cultural Opportunities Ad - "Chicago and Northern Illinois... Rich in Educational and Cultural Advantages"

1947 Combustion Engineering Steam Generating Units Ad - "History-making power stations"

1947 Kearney & Trecker Machine Tools Ad - "NEW MACHINES—Man’s friend or man’s foe?"

1947 Bank Building and Equipment Corporation of America bank design services Ad - "America's most experienced bank designers"

1947 Florida Tourism and Industry Ad - "The inside story of FLORIDA'S double life"

1947 Art Metal Conference Desk Ad - "Makes any office a conference room in 30 seconds flat!"

1947 Clearing Mechanical and Hydraulic Presses Ad - "Putting the FINGER on Costs"

1947 Synthane Plastics Ad - "Plastics where plastics belong for resistance to corrosion and wear"

1947 Towmotor Fork Lift Trucks and Tractors Ad - "THE ONE-MAN-GANG"

1947 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Services Ad - "Labor and management agree on Los Angeles"

1947 Glidden Lecithin Ad - "So little known - So big in promise"

1947 The National City Bank of New York International Banking Services Ad - "First in World Wide Banking"

1947 Diamond Roller Chains Ad - "When leaders go to market, they insist on the best!"

1947 J.E. Sirrine & Co. Engineering Services Ad - "When Management and Engineer are both good ...there's an upward trend to PROFIT"

1947 National Oil Seals Ad - "A double-jointed dingbat?"

1947 Joyce Machine Company Machined Metal Parts and Assemblies Ad - "COME AND GET IT!"

1947 SKF Ball and Roller Bearings Ad - "THE RIGHT BEARING FOR THE RIGHT PLACE"

1947 Al Paul Lefton Company Inc. Advertising Services Ad - "RESEARCH... IMAGINATION... RESULTS..."

1947 Smith, Barney & Co. Investment Securities Services Ad - "The Cornfield that fed a Miracle"

1947 Babcock & Wilcox Boilers Ad - "POWER BOOSTED 60% NO ADDED FLOORSPACE."

1947 Houston Pipe Line Co. Natural Gas Ad - "Goats DO Make Good Neighbors..."

1947 Bower Tapered Spher-O-Honed Roller Bearings Ad - "How Smooth is Smooth?"

1947 UGL Gilsalume Gilsonite Asphalt Aluminum Roof Paint Ad - "Actually cools buildings as much as 15°"

1947 American Brake Shoe wear-resistant parts Ad - "THE INEXORABLE DRIP"

1947 Burroughs Business Machines Ad - "THE MARK OF SUPERIORITY IN MODERN BUSINESS MACHINES"

1947 DuMont Teleset Ad - "Get the most out of television with a Du Mont Teleset"

1947 America Fore Insurance Group Household Possessions Fire Insurance Ad - "Add 'em up and fall over!"

1947 Hagan industrial combustion and chemical engineering services Ad - "message to 8 big companies and hundreds of smaller ones"

1947 McNally Pittsburg Harmattan Preparation Plant Ad - "Over the Horizon in '47 . . . The New Harmattan Preparation Plant"

1947 Monsanto Chemicals and Plastics for Wood Protection Ad - "How to Get the 'Bugs' Out of Wood—WITH CHEMISTRY"

1947 The Austin Company Engineering and Construction Services Ad - "DESIGNED TO SAVE A FRACTION OF A CENT"

1947 Champion Paper and Fibre Company paper products Ad - "Champion Logs Shoot The Chutes To Paper"

1947 McBee Keysort Ad - "Western scores ought to be on by now..."

1947 Burton's Distilled London Dry Gin Ad - "ON TOP From Coast to Coast"

1947 Ford Trucks Ad - "Where It's Toughest—Ford Trucks Last Longer!"

1947 Sperry Printer Ad - "Better ways to print faster with Sperry Electronics"

1947 Haig & Haig Blended Scots Whisky Ad - "The First and Last Word in Scotch"

1947 BOAC Speedbird Service Ad - "OVER THE ATLANTIC...AND ACROSS THE WORLD"

1947 Dewar's White Label and Dewar's Victoria Vat Ad - "As Traditional of Scotland as the Bagpipes"

1947 Lord Calvert Blended Whiskey Ad - "For Men of Distinction...LORD CALVERT"

1947 Eaton 2-speed axle Ad - "Eaton and the Truck Industry Grew Up Together"

1947 Yorkaire Conditioner Ad - "Will you have HOT WEATHER CROWDS this Summer?"

1947 Beechcraft Executive Transport Ad - ""Be back for dinner, Daddy""

1947 Bohn Aluminum & Brass Automotive Alloys Ad - "Millions of pounds of light alloys fabricated by Bohn are incorporated in the vast array of highly efficient automobiles that go into daily use throughout the world."

1947 Omega Automatic Watch Ad - "FIRST NAME IN TIME : LAST WORD IN WATCH MAKING"

1947 Kentucky Tavern Straight Bourbon Whiskey Ad - "The Aristocrat of Bonds"

1947 Seagram's Ancient Bottle Gin Ad - "American Originals"

1947 Canada Vacations Unlimited Ad - "It can still be all yours this year"

1947 Martin 2-0-2 Ad - "Here's How to Get the Jump on Competition! Travel or Ship by Martin 2-0-2"

1947 Dictograph Intercommunication System Ad - "The proven way to CUT BUSINESS COSTS"

1947 Canadian Pacific Train Travel Ad - "We're seeing CANADA by TRAIN!"

1947 Old Grand-Dad Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Ad - "Head of the Bourbon Family"

1947 Philadelphia Blended Whisky Ad - "The Heritage Whisky"

1947 Hilton Hotels Group Ad - "Individually Famous yet they possess the same Hilton Hospitality"

1947 Underwood Typewriter Ad - "Typewriter Leader of the World"

1947 Lincoln 1947 Motor Car Ad - "Nothing could be finer"

1947 Smith-Corona Office Typewriters Ad - "You can type 10 to 15 words a minute faster!"

1947 Gruen Curvex Watch Ad - "so truly Beautiful"

1950s Fortune Vintage Ads

1953 Moore-McCormack Lines South America Cruise Ad - "Every Voyage a Gay, Glamorous Cruise to South America"

1953 Bower Roller Bearings Ad - "MAKING BETTER TIME...now that the heat's off!"

1953 Jenkins Valves Ad - "LOOK FOR THE DIAMOND MARK"

1953 Babcock & Wilcox Boiler Division Steel Plate Bending Ad - "Easily bending steel plates this thick to make steam behave at 2700 pounds pressure"

1953 Springmaid Fabrics broadcloth Ad - "The Springs Cotton Mills"

1953 American Gas and Electric Company Industrial Location Services Ad - "must your plant be near a River? 18 Rivers to choose from along AGE lines..."

1953 Gilbert Envelope Bonds Ad - "There must be an easier way"

1953 Otis Autotronic Without Attendant Elevatoring Ad - "Eliminates the human element"

1953 Hercules Toxaphene Ad - "Winner Against Insects"

1953 NECA Qualified Electrical Contractors Ad - "Post Graduates in Productive Ideas"

1953 United States Gauge Radiosonde Diaphragms Ad - "FLYING SAUCERS... REAL!"

1953 Stone & Webster Financial, Management, and Engineering Services Ad - "S&W Men Know Finance... 'Only Stone & Webster Offers All 3...'"

1953 Hertz Truck Rental Service Ad - "Lease your trucks from Hertz. New trucks...everything furnished but the driver."

1953 Speer Carbon Co. Carbon Components Ad - "Peking Man had the answer..."

1953 Reichhold Chemicals Synthetic Resins and Pigments Ad - "Today's Paints...Science's 'Synthetic' Achievement!"

1953 Hagan Ring Balance Flow Meters Ad - "They're liquid ASSETS—measure them accordingly"

1953 The Philadelphia National Bank banking services Ad - "THE NUMBER ONE BANK IN PHILADELPHIA —in the heart of the world's greatest industrial area"

1953 Pittsburgh Color Dynamics Ad - "Makes This Steel Plant Better And Safer To Work In!"

1953 Chase Brass Ad - "Reach for the BRASS pardner!"

1953 Shawmut Bank Foreign Trade Financing Ad - "Shawmut sails the seven seas..."

1953 IBM Executive Electric Typewriter Ad - "Which is Your Type?"

1953 Westinghouse Selectomatic Control with Automatic Traffic Pattern Ad - "the only system that adjusts and readjusts itself AUTOMATICALLY to any traffic demand 24 hours a day"

1953 Combustion Engineering Controlled Circulation Boiler Systems Ad - "Controlled Circulation, pioneered in America by Combustion, goes nature one better"

1953 Bucyrus-Erie Mobile Trailer Hoist / Stepless-Adamson Automatic Boxcar Unloader Ad - "Two Materials-Handling Tools"

1953 RB&W precision screw-and-clamp unit Ad - "A Triple play by RB&W REALLY SAVED US PLENTY!"

1953 A.B. Dick Duplicating Equipment Ad - "The Tag-Lag problem almost had them licked"

1953 Union Carbide Carbon Brushes and Allied Products Ad - "Things are different—up there!"

1953 Hyatt Roller Bearing Journal Boxes Ad - "Streamliner speeds for freight...with diesel power and its running mate—Hyatt!"

1953 America Fore Insurance Group insurance Ad - "With America Fore Insurance, You Have a Friend in Every Town!"

1953 Celanese Chemicals for Building Industry Ad - "Celanese* Chemicals are basic for the Building Industry"

1953 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Industrial Property in Charleston, West Virginia Ad - "1200 Acres of Industrial Property in West Virginia Available in whole or in part"

1953 Air Reduction Company's New Calcium Carbide Plant construction services Ad - "With a background of over seventy years' experience"

1953 Vanadium alloying elements Ad - "This turtle turned into a shark!"

1953 Servel Air Conditioning Ad - "ended an argument between tolerances and temperature to speed guided-missile production at Bendix Aviation"

1953 Gaylord Boxes Ad - "Eye-Catching ATTRACTIVENESS, Easy-Handling EFFICIENCY, Product-Engineered PROTECTION, Fast-Packing ECONOMY"

1953 Crotty Brothers Food Service Ad - "How to turn a shrimp into a giant morale builder"

1953 Wyandotte Chemicals for Rayon Yarn Production Ad - "How Wyandotte Chemicals help turn towering trees into high fashion fabrics"

1953 Lycoming Precision Metalworking Solutions Ad - "Big 'doings' in metal"

1953 Mutual Benefit Life Special Business Insurance Plan Ad - "Inherited: One White Elephant"

1953 B&G Hydro-Flo Heating Ad - "Modern design deserves modern B&G Hydro-Flo Heating"

1953 Johnnie Walker Blended Scotch Whisky Ad - "This is the seventh coronation Johnnie Walker has seen since he was born in 1820"

1953 DuPont Nylon Tire Cord Ad - "Since we have been using NYLON CORDS, we've forgotten we even have tires"

1953 Grinnell Automatic Sprinkler System Ad - ""Hold it"!"

1953 Du Pont nylon plastic gear couplings Ad - "Couplings of resilient Du Pont nylon plastic run quietly...solve a driving problem"

1953 Gold Bond Perforated Asbestos backed with Gold Bond Mineral Wool Ad - "Gold Bond invites you to join the Anti-Noise Club"

1953 Seagram's VO Canadian Whisky Ad - "Known by the Company it Keeps"

1953 Hufford HYDRA-CURVE Jaws Ad - "We took our cue from Mother Nature... and built FLEXIBILITY into Hufford HYDRA-CURVE Jaws"

1953 Hewitt-Robins Complete Bulk Materials Handling Systems Ad - "WHAT WE DO IN PORT DEVELOPMENT"

1953 ACME visible record equipment Ad - "There is a type of ACME visible record equipment for every record purpose"

1953 Container Corporation of America (Corporate Advertisement) Ad - "Justice is the earnest and constant will to render to every man his due."

1953 Ebasco Services Inc. Industrial Construction Services Ad - "Bond & Share’s Big Baby"

1953 General Electric Electrical Insulation Systems Ad - "Engineers apply new electrical insulations to cut system costs"

1953 U.S. Steel Quality Forgings Ad - "Meet the man with a 50,000-pound grip"

1953 Lummus Chemical Plants Ad - "Chemical Plants by Lummus... Assure Reliable Operations"

1953 Dodge 'Job-Rated' Trucks Ad - "For lower gas and upkeep costs, I say 'try Dodge'!"

1953 Tube Turns Welding Fittings and Flanges Ad - "Welded piping guards purity in Upjohn processing systems"

1953 Trane conditioned air Ad - "Warming men who build cars...cooling folks who buy"

1953 Bell Telephone Service Ad - "The Trust You Have Placed In Us"

1953 Torrington Spherical Roller Bearings Ad - "offer you these basic advantages!"

1953 RCA Microwave Radio Relay System Ad - "Out of this 'dish' come service and safety"

1953 I-T-E Circuit Breaker Ad - "A revolution took place here!"

1953 Pablum Mixed Cereal Ad - "IT'S PABLUM FOR HIM - for PABLUM it's PNEUMATIC!"

1953 Allegheny Ludlum Special Electrical Alloys Ad - "Meters tell the tale but SPECIAL ELECTRICAL ALLOYS do the work"

1953 Burroughs Magic Multiplier Ad - "Cut Costly Billing Time with Burroughs Magic Multiplier"

1953 Thew Lorain Shovel-Cranes Ad - "Here's sugar for your coffee"

1953 Cutler-Hammer Motor Control Ad - "Installs easier. Works better. Lasts longer."

1953 U.S. Rubber Cutting Board Ad - "Fishy odors and bacteria banished by U.S. Rubber’s Cutting Board!"

1953 Jack & Heintz Automotive Equipment Ad - "What Jack & Heintz is doing about... ACCELERATION"

1953 Insley Type L Clamshell Ad - "Pipeline Contractors"

1953 Chrysler Design Railroad Freight Trucks Ad - "Earn four times average revenue — using Chrysler Design Railroad Freight Trucks"

1953 Rayonier Chemical Cellulose Ad - "What it takes to be a leading chemical cellulose producer"

1953 Champion Papers Satin Proof Enamel or Wedgwood Coated Offset Ad - "One stands out!"

1953 Barrett Asphalt Shingle Roof Ad - "The most important public buildings in Washington, D.C., were built to endure for generations. It is significant that these and other outstanding landmarks of our nation's capital are Barrett-roofed"

1953 Kimble Glass Block Ad - "Ever try to bend a sunbeam—Kimble can"

1953 Monsanto Pydraul F-9 hydraulic fluid Ad - "Is this trip necessary? It needn't be... with Pydraul"

1953 The Travelers Group Life, Hospitalization, Surgical, Sickness, and Accident Insurance Ad - "He is never far away from ANY point on the map"

1953 Superior Small Tubing Ad - "How metal's private eye identifies each suspect"

1953 Harrison Construction Company, Inc. construction services Ad - "LET'S KEEP BUILDING"

1953 Monroe All Purpose Calculator Ad - "You can own this new calculator for 1 1/2 cents* a day."

1953 Roebling Flat Spring Steel Ad - "America's finest!"

1953 Roebling High Carbon Wire Ad - "Here is perfection!"

1953 National Distillers Barrel Staves and Whiskeys Ad - "90,000 Acres of Natural Beauty ... and Barrel Staves, Too!"

1953 Worthington Air Conditioning Systems Ad - "Fully air conditioned skyscraper sets new building trend"

1953 Remington Rand bookkeeping machine Ad - "Remington Rand announces a new LOW-COST bookkeeping machine..."

1953 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Convertible Ad - "summer classic"

1953 American Cyanamid Company (careers in chemistry/chemical industry) Ad - "Congratulations!"

1953 Fenwal Electric Temperature Control and Detection Devices Ad - "What do YOU want to protect?"

1953 Crown Zellerbach Paper and Paper Products Ad - "Who makes the paper business GROW?"

1953 Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) Oil and Petroleum Services Ad - "A big job...well in hand"

1953 Jones & Lamson Machine Tools Ad - "The Actual is Limited, the Possible is Immense"

1953 Bank of America International Banking Services Ad - "Serving Commerce Around the World"

1953 General American Airslide Car Ad - "for rent to shippers"

1953 Turner Construction Company building services Ad - "A MOST UNUSUAL 'SAMPLE-CASE'"

1953 Raybestos-Manhattan Conveyor Belts Ad - "Whoever You Are... Whatever Your Business An R/M Product Touches Your Life"

1953 Liberty Mutual Compensation Insurance Ad - ""YOU MADE IT FOR ME, DADDY?""

1953 Chevrolet Handyman and Townsman Station Wagons Ad - "the last words in station wagons"

1953 Bendix-Westinghouse Air Power Brakes Ad - "expands to meet trucking industry demand for air power brakes"

1953 Rinshed-Mason Color Styling and Design Consulting Services Ad - "Vigorous design and fresh color styling can push your sales curve upward"

1953 Fluor Corporation Ltd. Engineering and Construction Services Ad - "This plant designed and constructed by The Fluor Corporation Ltd. Los Angeles"

1953 National Oil & Grease Seals and O-Rings Ad - "When commute trains flash overhead…"

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