Even though I can’t read the text, I thought this ad was worth putting up. I think I get the gist of it just fine.
Via Vintage Ads.
Vintage Ads put up another example of an ad, this one from 1931, using the idea of the “savage.” In this one, her “impossible” behavior is compared to an Electrolux refridgerator.
NEW! Vintage Ads offered us another on this theme. The text reads: “make like a medicine man in Voodoo Shorts.” Don’t miss the spear.
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cassie — October 8, 2008
Whoa, amazing find! Its the guy with the pipe right? :)
eallen — October 8, 2008
I note that 4 out of 5 men also have creepy, smarmy smirks on their faces. :p
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Mack B. Morant — November 17, 2010
Interesting stuff.
In fact I own a cardboard duplicate of the post titled "Genuine Bull Burham Smoking Tobacco" depicting black folk as boofoons". I bought the Colorful cardboard print while I was visiting a store of art artifacts in Virginia in 1991. I don't even remember what town or city I bought it in in Virgina. It was most interesting. I had research immages such as the latter while I was completing my Disertation at the University of Massachusetts, and I just had to have the peace. I never thouht I would run in to the real thing, but I did.
Mack
Anonymous — February 12, 2019
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