Imperial Granum advertisement with six baby photographs – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Imperial Granum advertisement with six baby photographs in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Imperial Granum advertisement with six baby photographs
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Six infant portraits fill this advertisement for Imperial Granum, a patent food sold to mothers as a way to nourish babies and young children. Advertisers of this period often used photographs of healthy infants as evidence that a product worked, so the grouping reads less as a family album than as a sales argument. Patent foods like this one were promoted heavily in newspapers and magazines in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when infant mortality was high and many parents turned to commercial preparations. The ads also show how photography was pressed into the service of persuasion, with the children's faces doing the work of a testimonial.
| Original scan | 628 × 898 px |
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| Reference | 864 |
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