Monday, January 16, 2012

Saving With An Electric Range


This Pepco ad featuring my mother appeared in 1950 in the Washington Post.

3 comments:

  1. Interesting indeed! Is that really your mom?

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  2. I thought the lady was an illustration. Even in 1950s they had pretty good composition. They used a lot of text in an advert though. Nowadays, they would only use that much text in medicine ads I guess.

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  3. yes that's really my mother- scanned out of the newspaper so the reproductive quality is lacking!

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