Keeping it brief today, as we wrestle with the css code from hell.

The Encyclopedia of the Marvelous, the Monstrous, and the Grotesque, complete with imagery. Not nearly as grim as you might imagine from the internet, with a focus on the 'wonders' described by the early travellers and collectors, and subsequently compiled in great tomes. Unrelated. The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 – 1920, a comprehensive exhibition and gallery. There's too much here to list, but we especially like Dr King's Lucky Book, 'My Life Was Saved by Bovinine', and these dubious instructions on 'electrocures'.

The archive also contains valuable collections of Kodakiana, soap flake advertising, tobacco advertising, and some entertaining personal scrapbooks, in all their tattered glory.

Finally, we are amused by this contemporary advertising campaignposted by things at 10:37 / 0 comments