The 1950s were a huge contrast with the grim war years of the 1940s. As peace broke out, Western society saw a consumer boom that led to unprecedented levels of economic prosperity. The growth of ...
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The 1950s models that set new expectations overnight
The 1950s did not just introduce new products, they introduced new archetypes, from the gleaming family car to the ...
Advertisements can tell us a lot about an era. The 1950s were a golden age in advertising, and incorporated catchy slogans, long paragraphs of copy, and idealized representations of an American ...
What do ball bearings have to do with the future? Everything, if you believe these ads from the 1950s. New Departure-brand ball bearings ran a number of print ads to position themselves in the minds ...
A new photo series is going viral this month for calling out sexism in 1950s advertising—and in America in general. Visual artist and photographer Eli Rezkallah’s gallery “In a Parallel Universe” ...
Margaret K. Hogg received funding from Leverhulme International Network Research Fund: “Discursive Families: A comparative study of UK and Australia: transformational representations of family, home ...
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