Victorian Ads for Burpee’s Seeds, skin bleach creams, typewriters, pianos, and more
I don’t think this 1892 fashion magazine is ever going to end! Here are 6 more scans, full of early 1890s Victorian advertisements.
Advertisements from these back pages include:
- “The Pattern Cook Book” – a comprehensive work on culinary science
- Young Ladies’ Journal
- Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
- The Illustrated American
- Burpee’s seeds (one of the few companies advertised in this fashion magazine that I know for sure is still around)
- The Shawknit Castle Calendar for 1892
- Magic Lanterns and Stereopticons (for parlor entertainments, education, and making money)
- The Marchal and Smith Piano Company
- Modene Hair Removal
- Caligraph Typewriters
- Cornish Organs and Pianos
- a ladies’ watch ad
- LaBlanche Face Powder
- A New and Exhaustive book upon the subject of personal Beauty
- The Enterprise Tinned Meatchopper
- “The Correct Art of Candy Making at Home”
- Taffy Tolu Colgan’s Gum
- Peats Wallpaper
- a large scissors ad
- fragrant Sozodont
- VanHouten’s Cocoa
- mail order Irish point linens
- … and more!
