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  • Collection: Annotating the London Illustrated Weekly

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This advertisement for Eau De Suez have three kinds of distinguished by a yellow, green, and red silk thread, it attached to the bottles. That with the yellow stops instantly the most violent toothache. That with the green is invaluable to persons…

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This is an advertisement for the oldest tricycle and largest cycle manufacturers in the world. They can help you fit it, and there have show rooms of the tricycles. You can find any type of tricycle and cycle there, because it is one of the world…

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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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This advertisement is about Samuel Brothers respectfully invite application for patterns of their new materials for the Present Season. These are forwarded post-free, and is together with the illustrated price-list, it also containing 250 engravings…

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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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The advertisement is for Cadburys Cocoa. The advertisement is displaying how at every stage in ones life, from infancy to old age, Cadburys Cocoa is a enjoyable beverage. The add depicts people from multiple class levels. The add portrays the idea…

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The advertisement is for wilkinson razors. The add is depicting two styles of razors provided by the company. The slogans around the pictures of the razors lead the purchaser to believe that the product is premium steel that is made from the same…

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The advertisement is fro Globe Polish, which is a metal cleaning product. The product claims to be the best of its kind and claims to not scratch metal surfaces. Also it claims to be non flammable. This product claims to be the best cleaning product,…

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The Advertisement is for Foots Library Lounge furniture. The furniture claims to be one of a kind that is specifically made for casual reading. The product is targeted to business professionals and students. The advertisement describes how the…

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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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A very large yet simplistic advertisement that gets straight to the point. It does not require much time to read it, and thought it does not provide a lot of wordage to describe the product it is still effective being direct about the most important…

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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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There are several testimonies some included from private letters showing the rating of customers. This product is targeted for infants, invalids, and the aged which provides nutritional benefactors. The logo allows for a very flowed movement of the…

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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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A Turkish bath at home. It cures diseases without medicine! The bath treats cases of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, colds, bronchitis, asthma, influenza, Typhoid, and other fevers. The description of the bath aids dates the advertisements because thermal…

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Solid nickel table and kitchen utensils. Selling point is that nickel is the cleanest and purest metal with everlasting wear. Shows example of a tea kettle and a vegetable dish. Dates the advertisement because nickel nowadays is not readily used for…

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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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This advertisements draws readers in with the illustration of a box with furniture exploding out of it to emphasis the small space can hold more storage of furniture than it appears to be capable of. Furniture is not in the newest condition possible…

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A skin product which not only gives soft and smooth skin but also maintains the fairness of white skin in all seasons. It company validates it's product is genuine only when labeled with green, gold, and chocolate. The image displayed is that of a…

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At first this product appears to be target for use in homes, particularly bathrooms considering it contains "toilet" in the title. However by the descriptions on the either side of the logo it is actually intended to be used as a beauty product for…

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

Oil heating stoves with no smoke, no smell, no glass chimney, and great heat from little oil. It has an improved burner with a removable oil fount and automatic indicator. There is a printed image of the burner with prices shown to help sales.

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Tobacco that smells good when you smoke it. Three Nuns Tobacco comes in 1oz packets and 2oz and 1/4 lb tins. They claim that there are none nicer. Ink print of man smoking Three Nuns tobacco and woman telling him it smells nice.

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An advertisement for Keating's Lozenges, promising an "utterly unrivaled remedy for coughs, hoarseness, and throat troubles", as well as promising to cure "Winter Cough, Asthma, and Bronchitis."

This ad has no images, but does have large, bold,…

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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.

The…

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An advertisement for Williams' Shaving Soaps, "the favorites for half a century." Unlike most ads from the time period, this ad does not feature large amounts of text, instead featuring a well-rendered illustration a man holding a package of…

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An advertisement for wigs and toupees, both for men and women. The ad features an illustrated image of an unhappy bald man and promises wigs that are "perfect imitations of nature." The company specializes in wigs for both Ladies and Gentlemen, and…

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An advertisement for Claxton's (patent) Ear-Cap, a product for "remedying prominent ears" and "preventing disfigurement in the after life." The ad features an illustrated picture of the product being worn by a young woman, and seems designed to…

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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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