More than just a source of nostalgia, vintage advertising serves as a window into the attitudes, actions, and self-presentation of a more advanced society. If you look at a magazine from the 1940s or ...

In the mid-1950s, Chevrolet began to market its cars using a word that it, as far as we know, came up with all by itself: motoramic. According to Chevrolet, motoramic meant "more than a new car, a new ...

Santa Claus, his reindeer and a tree surrounded by gifts are some of the Christmas season’s most iconic images—and, as advertisers have long known, they’re also some of the best ways to get shoppers ...

PEORIA — Mark Johnson is opening up his collection of vintage Caterpillar ads again. As he’s done the past two years, Johnson, who retired in 2009 after 37 years at Caterpillar Inc., will showcase ...

What do ball bearings have to do with the future? Everything, if you believe these ads from the 1950s. New Departure-brand ball bearings ran a number of print ads to position themselves in the minds ...

Long before choosing who to date by swiping left or right, singles looking for love had to put themselves out there the old-fashioned way: through personal ads in newspapers and magazines. From lonely ...