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Today I’m sharing some fun images from the Georgia Tech Archives – a collection of advertisements printed in student publications during the first half of the 20th century. Additionally, links to some of the other digital collections at the Archives:

• The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Collection, composed of photos and documents tracing the history of the mills and surrounding community, including union activity and important labor actions of the early 20th century. (The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill was one of the buildings that sustained significant damage during the tornado in downtown Atlanta on March 14.)
• A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, by astronomer and astrophotographer Edward Emerson Barnard, who, among other things, discovered that gas and dust clouds cause the dark regions in the Milky Way.
• Two document-based collaborative projects – Witness to the Holocaust and Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement.

Now, on to the ads:

Hertz anticipates text messaging by sixty years:

Ad for a bookstore and lending library:

Finally, an activity suitable for the ladies!

Drink driving is humorous:

This one’s not really funny; I just have a thing for fountain pens.

Hrm. Think I’ll stick with the gym:

I’m sure that mothers everywhere just loved this service.

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