Found in Mom's Basement

Seriously old advertising

Here are some Victorian-era advertising cards.

Found at The Vintage Moth, art-e-ology, adviz and Pinterest.

Vintage Lord & Taylor

From 1879:

From 1941:

Also from 1941:

From 1950s:

Also from 1950s:

From 1953:

From 1956:

Also from 1956:

From 1965:

Also from 1965:

Vintage ad: Universal Food Chopper, from 1890s

Those pigs remind me of something.

Found at Copyranter.

Fashion plates from the 1800s

Find more fashion plates at BibliOdyssey.

Vintage Got milk? ads

Singer/actress Vanessa Williams in 1998 . . .

Actor Erik Per Sullivan of Malcolm in the Middle in 2001 . . .

The cast of Everybody Loves Raymond in 2000 . . .

Television/radio host Larry King in 1997 . . .

Illusionist David Copperfield in 1997 . . .

Advertising overload in 1865

Source: if charlie parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats

1880s advertising premium: paper dolls

Click image to enlarge.

Source: Hazelruthes

Tombstones for sale from the old Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog

Found at Live Journal.

Vintage flyer for 'James Buchanan for president'

Source: Live Journal

Posters advertising famous conjoined twins, Chang and Eng

According to Wikipedia:

Perhaps the most famous pair of conjoined twins was Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), Chinese brothers born in Siam, now Thailand. They traveled with P.T. Barnum's circus for many years and were billed as the Siamese Twins; due to their fame and the rarity of the condition, the term came to be used as a synonym for conjoined twins, although in recent years the term has fallen out of favor and is considered a pejorative term. Chang and Eng were joined by a band of flesh, cartilage, and their shared liver at the torso. In modern times, they could have been separated easily.

If memory serves (and the margin of the second poster seems to confirm), both Chang and Eng married and fathered children -- which leads to all kinds of questions that I doubt anyone in the 19th century was impolite enough to ask.

Source:  Morbid Anatomy