15 August 2009

Hatamen Cigarettes

The Missive Maven’s postcard of a Shanghai beauty hawking Hatamen cigarettes put me in mind that I have some similar postcards.  This is one of a set of eight postcards featuring reproductions of posters by the Xie Xing Long advertising company, which flourished in the 1920s-1930s.  Naturally, she gets the pretty girl; all of the [...]