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  • Collection: Annotating the London Illustrated Weekly

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With a rather detailed illustration, this advertisement promotes bicycles made from Raleigh "the most famous man of Queen Elizabeth's Time". Being a celebrity, customer's might be inclined to believe it's quality of being the "best bicycles" around…

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An advertisement for French natural mineral water that claims to keep Rheumatism away. The advertisement states that Vichy-Celestins can be obtained at all hotels, clubs, chemists and stores. Pictured is a line drawing of two men and one woman…

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The unique feature of this advertisement is that it is a full page advertisement. "For Summer days Drink Ovaltine for Health!' is the only text of the ad. The drawing is of a woman sitting at a table sipping from a china tea cup while glancing…

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The text of the advertisement consists of, "What to take for a sick headache. Take a good dose of Carter's Little Liver Pills--2 or 3 for a few nights after. A few doses restore your organs to their proper functions and the headache and the causes…

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The advertisement is directed at healthy folk and physical fitness. It claims that a small 'dash' of Eno's Fruit Salt sparkling in a glass of water first thing on rising every morning is the athlete's natural safeguard to health. This ad is…

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This small advertisement professes to be the modern palatable form of iron tonic. Devoid of all the usual drawbacks of iron tonics. Iron Jelloids claim to be unequaled for anemia and weakness in men, women and children. There are no graphics, nor…
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