Life Savers magazine advertisement with fruit slices and candy drops – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Life Savers magazine advertisement with fruit slices and candy drops in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Life Savers magazine advertisement with fruit slices and candy drops
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Life Savers, the hard candy with a hole in the middle, is the subject here, shown in a magazine advertisement with sliced fruit and candy drops arranged around it. Ads like this were a staple of mid-20th-century print media, when brands leaned on bright color and simple, appetizing still lifes to sell small, inexpensive treats. Note how the candy is set beside real fruit, a common tactic that suggested the sweets were fresh, fun, and a little bit like the produce they sat next to.
| Original scan | 699 × 901 px |
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| Reference | 521 |
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