A few months ago I was contacted by a person who works behind the scenes for the tv show American Pickers . She was interested in using an ...

Entering World War II for the United States was still almost two years away when this card was sent, but fuel economy was already a topic o...

If you’ve spent some time here the past few years you might remember illustrator Gluyas Williams. Gluyas was the illustrator of some wonde...

If you're a kid, it's never too early to start thinking about what you demand for Christmas. Make sure it's something hard to f...

Here is another ad from the 1940 edition of Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus Magazine and Daily Review . I love the look of the a...

A complete surprise to me. I didn't see one ham while I lived in Hollywood. Not one! I saw thousands! Click on image to see it large...

Click on image to see it larger. (SOURCE:  Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus Magazine and Daily Review , 1940)

Suitable for framing? Hang it on a child's bedroom wall. Just an idea. Click on image to see it larger. (SOURCE:  Ringling Bros and...

The clowns I've featured in photos have been nameless, except for Felix Adler. The reason Adler is named in the  Ringling Bros and Barn...

I really have no idea if the famous Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey clown Felix Adler loved Wheaties, but the ad would have you believi...

Howard Johnson's never really caught on out here in the West the way it was on the East Coast. I remember them as a child with their bl...

I gather from this circus magazine that circus performers suffer from a lot of common ailments, especially clowns. Now we find out that t...

I don’t know if this clown is laughing maniacally at the thought of Borvil or at all the typos in this ad. It sort of amazes me that they w...

Nothing relives constipation better than a daily dose of a clown with Marie Antoinette. Click on image to see it larger. (SOURCE: Ringl...

The look on this clown's face only confirms what I found to be true during elementary school. If you pulled a box of Ludens out of your...

I think this company might have been stretching it a bit when they said that curling your eyelashes was "more fun than a circus."...

I’d like to think that clowns don’t frighten me. As a child I don’t think they did. I liked clowns and never thought of them as being creep...

This vintage Coca-Cola magazine ad is from a 1940 Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus Magazine and Daily Review . I find it fascinat...