Pickaninnies have thankfully fallen by the wayside in corporate advertising. Collections of these and other caricatures of black Americans show up at estate sales from… Read More »Pillsbury’s Best Flour Advertisement
Playboy Sex & Music Issue. Keeping the KISS theme going. Photo by Grand.
Ah, memories. Malcolm McDowell, Dame Helen Mirren, Peter O’Toole, and Sir John Gielgud. In a Roman era porno produced by Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse.… Read More »Penthouse – Special Caligula Issue – May 1980
Photo by Gold Coast.
Photo by Stellar.
They hailed from Firebaugh, California, which still has a Cantaloupe Round-Up Festival. Photo by Grasons.
Photo by Pacific.
Oh dear. The text is available online. Oh dear oh dear. Lots of blackface. However, in the context of the current furore over drag queen… Read More »How to Put On an Amateur Circus (1923)
