The New Sterling Did It: Sterling Ranges advertisement with bread display – Vintage Print
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This historic image of The New Sterling Did It: Sterling Ranges advertisement with bread display brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The New Sterling Did It: Sterling Ranges advertisement with bread display
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The title makes the claim plainly: the new Sterling range deserves the credit for the loaves on display. Advertisements of this kind were built around the kitchen stove, which for most households was the costliest and most central appliance, so a sales pitch would hinge on baking results that a housewife could judge at a glance. Setting bread in front of the viewer was a direct way to argue that a stove could be trusted with the family's daily baking. Stove makers of the period competed hard on oven reliability and fuel economy, and images like this one show how manufacturers sold a machine by pointing to the finished food it produced.
| Original scan | 1,915 × 1,378 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif09464_ThenewSterlingdiditSterlingran |
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