Last Thursday, a throw-back Thursday, I showed you a magazine from 1945 with an advertisement for Old Taylor bourbon whiskey.
Today, on a way-back Wednesday, I'm going to take you back even further, thanks to an issue of Success Magazine from the year 1908!
That means that magazine, which my wife had squirreled away in a drawer and which came to light during some cleaning recently, is 113 years old.
That's One-Hundred-and-Thirteen years!
Probably older than anyone reading this blog post.
Here it is.
For those of you who don't recognize him, that's the then-President of the United States on the cover.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.
The magazine was founded in 1897 by Orison Swett Marden.
Googling him will produce a fascinating biography of one of the rags-to-riches men of the late 19th Century.
Looking at old magazines like this is always fascinating, to see how things have changed and at how some things remain the same.
Here's an advertisement for an early invention by one Thomas Edison.
Take notice of the very-corseted lady on the left and her well-attired gentleman companion.
Another advertisement inside told of a cereal created in 1894 by William K. Kellogg for patients at a sanitarium where he worked in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Interestingly enough, all these years later, Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Success Magazine are still with us.
My great grandmother Alice was born in England and was very proper, she reminded me of the Queen Mother. I can remember hugging her when I was a little kid and feeling the "bones" of her corset. I'm pretty sure she was the only woman in my life who wore one. There may be a few women around who wear corsets for "professional reasons" today. Women like Elsa the She Wolf or Mistress Claudia...
ReplyDeleteFascinating bit of history. I spent endless hours reading and looking at magazines, some of which no longer exist. That copy is a great find/save.
ReplyDeleteKellogg's. First carb in a box.
ReplyDeleteWhen we bought our last house, it was filled with stuff. In the attic there were 'Fortune' Magazines, a couple years worth. The advertisements are wonderful. My husband loves the automobile advertising. I was tickled by a trip around the world, with stops in cities along the way, for less than $800.
ReplyDeleteSuccess magazine is still around? Teddy is a fascinating guy; we read a lot about him in "The Big Burn." We have him (and several others) to thank for our national parks.
ReplyDeleteFun stuff.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty amazing. It must be so much fun to thumb through that magazine.
ReplyDeleteSuccess magazine still exists?! I was going to say it hadn't been successful -- but I guess I'm wrong! Still, it's not THAT successful, because I haven't heard of it.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the corseted lady and her -- one assumes -- husband are playing the phonograph for the help. So generous of them!
Teddy was one of a kind.
ReplyDeleteVery cool. I've never heard of "Success." Old magazine ads are intriguing. I swear I saw one for cigarettes touted to women, a drawing point being that babies of smoking women had a lower birth weight.
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