Pierce-Arrow Society, Advertising Gallery, 1904.
social class
“Healthy again” —
physically and (which amounts to the same thing) historically. The air inside the Pullmans was fragrant with smoke, everyone knew their place, and the help spoke Help language. The imaginative concept that had brought forth the text and its art was that not just inside but outside black boundaries, the universe is white.
As white as white flesh sprouting from a brown juice.
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Life magazine, September 6, 1937, page 116. Life digital archive, New York Public Library.
Reverence before the red
The advertisement for the 1926 Pierce-Arrow is photoshopped from its source at http://oldcaradvertising.com.
Vertical section: as the United States makes its transition to an oligarchy, the idea of class distinction takes on its old importance
Source: “S.S. Majestic, Outward Bound Farewells.” Detroit Publishing Company, 1903. Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994011028/PP/. Photoshopped.
How to dress for Costco
Source: http://blog.vintascope.com/image/88082072715. Photoshopped.