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  • Collection: Annotating the London Illustrated Weekly

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This advertisement uses a darker color scheme then a majority of other advertisements. Nothing supposedly compares to this product which they validate by their efforts to make it the best quality product for over half-a-century. Below they also…

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A complimentary sauce intended for roasted meats, fish, game, cheese, salad, and plenty of other foods. The number of uses that Lea and Perrins's Sauce can be put on are "innumerable" according to the ad. Intended for use by both regular people and…

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The advertisement is for Lemco Beef Stock. The company is approaching customers with a quality beef product that has been around for 40 years. The slogan for the advertisement is a cow saying " I shall be pleased to meet you at your dinner table any…

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This products seeks to promote the use of Beef Tea in maintaining the body's temperature to a conditional temperature that is neither too cold nor too hot. It emphasis the fact the product can serve a bountiful amount of people.

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This advertisement is selling loose-fitting underwear that will be comfortable to wear, even when the weather is warmer.

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Product invented by Lord Kelvin, which is presumably someone highly important by the emphasis they put in making his name bold. The image displays the mechanism that occurs withing the product, and guarantees 3 years of durability. It has a rather…

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The Lux product is not just for laundry but it is also for hair washing, silverware polishing and even for a luxurious bath. The image on the advertisement is a little misleading since it depicts the opposite of what the product is about. The image…

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Ad that uses iteration to advertise their services and products. Theirs trade being Carpets, Turkey, and home Furnishing.

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What most people might picture when they think about early 20th century house decor is wooden floors, large center rugs and wooden furniture. From a look at this advertisement, it is safe to say that those assumptions are pretty correct. It looks…

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This wine is advocated to be healthy for the body and brain with testimonies given by the most credible physicians of that age. It provides remedy for exhaustion, depression, sleeplessness, and debility to give the customer fast access to getting…

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An advertisement that states that if you take this remedy then it is guaranteed to prevent and cure your sea-sickness, train-sickness or air-sickness. If not cured then you will get your money refunded.

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This product is targeted for mother's and children in reducing the pain of children's incoming teeth. It allegedly maintains perfect success, and somehow is very good at prevention of diarrhea.

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A simple advertisement using the image of two infants who appear both healthy and happy as a result of consuming Neave's Food. Below the image is a testimony explaining the benefits of buying the product.

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These gifts are useful and ornamental. The ladie's ivory opera glass is gilt manted with an engraved monogram. The gentlemen's leather-covered field glass has a monogram in piered silver. Mounted in Aluminum, tortoise-shell or Pearl. Negretti and…

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The New Silks and Dresses is advertising the silk is now lower in price than at any period since the French Revolution, 1848. They are doing on sale on the coquette, this is a very pretty jacket that is made in the new Boucle Cloth, trimmed Chantilly…

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This advertisement shows kitchen ware that is made of pure nickle. It shows the kind of materials they had access to and maybe what was considered fancy, Now kitchen tools are made of silver or high end materials like silver. It is a pretty basic…

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Advertisement for an anti Eczema cream that claims to rid the face of blemishes. It claims to cure blackheads, pimples, spots, rashes, and more.

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This advertisement is about Nubian Blacking gives a brilliant polish for a week through wet or dry weather. It applied with sponge attached to the cork. It does not injure the leather nor clothing. It also combines all the requirements for Harness in…

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A small ad describing this remedy that will restore your grey hair to its natural color.

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This product is a relief medicine for colds, coughing. or any problematic lung conditions. There are testimonies provided by consumers who have used to product, which is used to gain credibility of the company. It advocates to be a more safe, more…

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Advertisement for furniture of all descriptions for sale a a moderate cost (being made by machinery).

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Looks like hygiene and being clean was a big thing in the turn of the century. In this advertisement they use mainly women who are all dressed up. The target audience is obviously women and it is more obvious in the description where they use words…

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This is a medicinal advertisement from 1885 that for a remedy called Pepper’s Quinine Iron Tonic. The ad is in text and calls out the uses of this medicine. This product seems to be pretty universal since it is used for “bodily, mental, nerve,…

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Advertisement for the Rental and Sale of Pianos.

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An ad that sells its products by giving the prices of their wares. The specialty of this company is smithing, making fine dinning ware.

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An advertisement for Poncelet's Pastilles, a throat lozenge. The ad is simple, featuring an illustration of two men conversing. One is ill with a cough, and the other suggests taking Poncelet's Pastilles, and be cured within twenty-four hours.

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An advertisement selling a delicious box of FRY's Prince of Wales chocolates.

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An advertisement for prism binoculars selling the idea that these binoculars are the most powerful binoculars ever manufactured. Also stated that the Aitchison & Co. Ltd are also the only makers of Prismatic Binoculars with a magnification of 25…

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The Provost Oats advertisement in The London Illustrated Times looks like it is saying, eat provost oats and be a manly man! The ad has a picture of a man in a kilt and suit jacket holding a giant bowl of steaming provost oats above his head. We get…

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This blood purifier called Cuticera Resolvent is the only blood purifier that forever eradicated the virus of inherited and contagious blood poisons. These blood poisons include Bad Blood Scrofulous, inherited and contagious with loss of hair,…
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