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Tag Archives: early advertising
Selling Seeds in 1953—ALL the prizes!
I’m back! Back again with the American Seed catalog. O’Half thinks I should list ALL the prizes available—that you need more choices. Well, this is opening a can of worms because there are a lot of prizes, but to save … Continue reading
Selling Seeds in 1953
I found this old seed packet advertising recently–from 1953, and had fun looking through it. You would sell packets of seeds for 10 cents a packet and then earn PRIZES for your sales! How easy was that? It says right … Continue reading
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Nice Little Project with Books, part 2 I think
So, I grabbed two more books–if you don’t count the two I took last week and didn’t tell you about . . . and they both seem to be about early advertising. I wonder if the whole bunch are about … Continue reading
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