Tupper Diva‘s got an archive of old Tupperware catalogs and ephemera.
March 2nd, 2012
Your Mom Can Totes Spin Dat Wax!
I have a thing for women with vintage vinyl and turntables.
January 23rd, 2012
Modern Woman Mondays: Shopping With Points
I’m guessing from this vintage ephemera set I’ve listed that Emling Products was, if not like S&H Green Stamps, operating some sort of point rewards system for shoppers back in the day. I don’t know anything about Emling. If you do, please share!
A vintage Seasons Greetings holiday card with poinsettias on the front. Inside it reads:
Greetings:Just as friendship grows and flourishes at the Holiday Season, so it is our sincere wish that our business relationship shall grow in mutual understanding and strength.
Best of everything for Christmas and New Year’s.
From the EMLING “Business Family”
I think it might be a Gibson greeting card — on back: E. 63, made in USA, what looks like a G.Co. It’s one of those “money” sized greeting cards, measuring roughly 8 by 3 1/2 inches.
Tucked inside, a gift certificate for “Five Hundred Merchandise Points” which reads as follows:
You may use these points at any time to obtain merchandise listed in our point catalogue. Ask your Emling representative for our point catalogue.When you purchase Emling Products your representative will give you additional point coupons throughout the year.
Gift certificate measures approximately 8 by 3 1/2 inches. At the bottom of the paper gift certificate: copyright GOES 417.
January 9th, 2012
Ding Dong, Avon Calling
November 22nd, 2011
Getting In The Holiday Mood
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November 11th, 2011
Craft Scan Friday: Sales Demonstration For Candle Making
A sales demonstration for Glo Candles, circa 1950s. Found in The Glo Candle For All Occasions, The Glow Candle Co., Kansas City, Missouri; copyright 1952 and 1956 by Consumers Cooperative Association.
October 24th, 2011
Modern Woman Mondays: Gelatin Edition
After WWII and continuing through the 1960s, an emphasis on kitschy culinary arts kept little women busy in their places: the kitchen. How else do you explain the Joys Of Jell-O?
Perhaps the best thing about the miracle of gelatin based foods was the fact that, other than boiling water, one didn’t ruin their makeup in the heat. No, I don’t think the best thing was food stuff themselves… So bright, yet so wrong. Vegetables? Waldorf Salad? Shrimp?! Even the photos of the desserts make my teeth hurt. …Although that Jell-O and ice cream gum-drop number might be worth it. For more on the miracle of gelatin foods, check out Retro Mimi (my interview with her here) and my Things Your Grandmother Knew blog.
October 10th, 2011
Modern Woman Mondays: Women Need Iron
A woman’s work is never done. Check out my other blog, Things Your Grandmother Knew for help with the housework. Photo of Ava Gardner via.
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October 1st, 2011
Babs In Bibs: Donning Overalls, She Saw The Light
Up for auction at Heritage Auctions:
Attributed to CHARLES GATES SHELDON (American, 1889-1960)
Admiring the Saw
Pastel on board
30 x 19 in.
Signed lower rightFrom the Estate of Charles Martignette.
September 28th, 2011
GE Kitchens Are Next To Godliness
The cover of God In My Kitchen: Fifty-Two Thoughts For Homemakers, by Dorothy C. Haskin. (I’m giving one away in this contest! Or you can find it on Amazon
In the acknowledgements:
The kitchen shown on the cover was designed by Home Guide Inc., using General Electric appliances. We are indebted to these organizations for the picture.
Personally, I never got over that documentary we were shown in collage. Ever since then, whenever someone says “GE” or “General Electric,” I scream, “Babies born without skulls!” …I guess that’s one type of atomic kitchen.
