Camel cigarettes advertisement: Adeline Gray nylon parachute live test – Vintage Wall Art
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This rare historic image captures Camel cigarettes advertisement: Adeline Gray nylon parachute live test in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Camel cigarettes advertisement: Adeline Gray nylon parachute live test
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Here a parachute made of nylon, a fabric that was new to the public, serves as the stage for a cigarette advertisement. The record places a live test of that parachute under a Camel banner, so the ad sells the product through a demonstration of performance rather than a portrait of a smoker. Nylon was introduced by DuPont in the late 1930s and was soon in heavy demand for military parachutes, which lent the material an aura of reliability and modernity. Tobacco companies of the period often borrowed that kind of technological prestige to lend their own brands a similar sheen.
| Original scan | 800 × 1,136 px |
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| Reference | 910 |
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