Floyd Clymers Scrapbook

The Talk-o-phone, the Victor-Victrola, and the Proctor and Gamble Co.'s vegetable glycerine for smoker's throat can all be found in this amusing and nostalgic collection of old advertisements dating back to before the turn of the century. This scrapbook follows the development of advertising from Columbia Bicycle in 1880 and The Primo - patent direct action jet cycle water closet in 1891 through the Spiegel, May, Stern Co. of Chicago's offer of thirty days free trial and easy credit terms for the merchandise in their 1909 catalogue. This is a delightful and memorable look into the merchandise and fashions, strange and familiar, of an earlier America. 224 pages of illustrations.