Found in Mom's Basement

Posters displayed at the 1939 Negro Industrial Fair in NYC

Found at Sociological Images.

It wasn't just white women who were taught that their looks were all-important. How's that for twisted equality?

Vintage cigarette ads: Smoked turkey, anyone?

These vintage tobacco-related ads and many others can be found at Stanford School of Medicine.

1962 textbook, When You Marry

Found at Sociological Images.

Tragic.

Scary vintage cigarette ads

These vintage tobacco-related ads and many others can be found at Stanford School of Medicine.

1940s Johnson Smith & Co. catalog featuring masks of Hitler and Stalin

Found at grow-a-brain.

1980s ad campaign for Capri women's cigarettes

The first three ads really did come from my mother's basement where they'd gotten wet and the paper puckered a bit. Sorry about the quality.

From 1989:

From 1990:

Vintage ad targeting "homely women"

The book being advertised includes "practical devices for ugly ears, mouths, fingertips, crooked teeth."

Found at Community Livejournal.

Disturbing ads for Dupont Cellophane

Found at Community Livejournal.

And this one was found at Copyranter.

It's June and you know what that means -- smoking brides!

These vintage tobacco-related ads and many others can be found at Stanford School of Medicine.

Super-creepy vintage ad for Ivory soap

No wonder the little girl looks like she's about to cry.

Found at Sociological Images.