Thursday, April 9, 2009

advertising: fooling all the people (5)


New York Times, November 28, 1897



A special Macy's and Gimbels edition of advertisements that used some variation of Abraham Lincoln's famous saying, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Click on images to make them bigger.









New York Times, December 6, 1930