No comments about Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping (Blacks in the Diaspora).

5 comments about Coca-Cola Girls : An Advertising Art History.

1. An important book for students or all people who apreciate Coca-Cola advertising history. But the print quality of this book is very bad and the rason I gave only 3 stars rate. I have many others books about Coca-Cola and comparing some pictures on this book I can see a serious problem of quality of picture reproduction. The magenta canal, the black canal at the scannering time is not correctly adjusted. The reproduction of originals have primary errors! I hope this review sound like a special attention adivise for the editors. Don't do that please!



2. The Coca-Cola bottling company was a major influence on the popular culture of America and the western world throughout the twentieth century. Their marketing slogans, images, and icons permeated every level of society. Never was this more true than in the case of the "Coca-Cola Girl", an image of perfect, wholesome, energetic American beauty that graced all manner of advertising in all medias. Now in a single volume, Chris Beyer presents a unique, accurate, detailed, magnificently illustrated history of Coca-Cola's advertising showcasing the use of women to promote an image encouraging the American public to make the beverage a part of their daily life style. Coca-Cola Girls: An Advertising Art History is a fascinating stroll down through the decades of the twentieth century that will appeal to the nostalgia of its readers and is a highly recommended addition to any Americana and popular culture collections.



3. Long before "the pause that refreshes" became a national catch phrase and "Coke" a euphemism for any soft drink, there were the Coca-Cola models - winsome rosy-cheeked young women often engaged in a domestic task or posed invitingly with frosty glass close by.

   While always smiling, the Coca-Cola girls have many faces and all of them are stunningly reproduced in this full-color volume brimming with illustrations from the Coca-Cola Company archives.

   An 1897 advertisement features a Victorian lady seated primly on a pillow, while another from that era introduces a pensive miss seated at her flower bedecked desk with pen in hand. A Coca-Cola bride smiled at us in 1906, while a 1919 shot presented a beautiful girl against an early airport scene.

   Of course, the 1940s war years showed women in uniform, and the 1950s brought girls at work and play.

   Perhaps the most appealing illustrations are from the brush of N. C. Wyeth. Whatever the case, history buffs, Coca-Cola collectors, art connoisseurs, and those who simply want to remember will find much to enjoy in this colorful archival volume.




4. A wonderful book! This book is a walk through the history of Coca-Cola's eye for the beauty of woman. Each photograph shows the incredible detail that went into creating the delicate feminine art that would sell the old-fashioned soda for many years. I encourage you to sit and read the exciting history that has been written with great knowledge. I have enjoyed each and every page. If you have any interest in Coca-Cola this book is sure to pull you into the fascination of the world of Coca-Cola's history.



5. a delightful romp through the history of using sex to sell soda pop. and you thought it was only cars,cigarettes and alcohol that got sold that way.... A concise examination of cokes use of the female form in advertising over the last century

1 comments about Wants of a Man.

1. I looked all over for this book, in local libraries and such to read the full poem. This book is a single poem that is wonderful in my opinion.. Although it is only 30 some pages long...
   
   After telling my kids of parts of this poem I can now say I have the whole poem (hard to find) and they will treasure it forever. That is good enough for me :)

No comments about A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare and Unedited Roman Coins: from the Earliest Period of the Roman Coinage, to the Extinction of the Empire under Constantinus ... numerous plates from the originals. Volume 2.

2 comments about A Farm Country Christmas.

1. Thank you for a wonderful book. All as advertised with timely shipping.



2. A wonderful find for country aficionados and for those who relish the sentimentality of Christmas. The writing is excellent and the illustrations picture perfect. The collection of essays and other contributions from the likes of L.M Montgomery (of "Anne of Green Gables" fame), Laura Ingalls Wilder and Bob Artley set the perfect tone. The many beautiful photographs and folk paintings of rural winter scenes in addition to old photographs of farmhouse Christmas pasts likewise evoke just the right mood for the holiday season. This book is for anyone who lives in the country, would like to live in the country and who loves Christmas.

1 comments about The Whole Pop Catalog: The Berkely Pop Culture Project.

1. This is one of those books that you can dip into time after time and always find something new and fascinating.. It examines a huge range of topics eg advertising, Barbie, baseball, Hippies, Marilyn Monroe,yo-yos, giving historical background and adding interesting follow-up activities such as fan clubs, appreciation societies and places to visit as well as reading lists. The compilers enthusiasm shines through. Pop culture is often trivialised and looked down upon by many but this shows just how vibrant and fascinating it really is. I think most people would have at least one passion, however secret, among the many topics covered here.

1 comments about Classical Norfolk Furniture: 1810 - 1840.

1. Finely detailed in research and detailed photos of an oten overlooked period of American furniture.

No comments about The Big Book of Caterpillar: The Complete History of Caterpillar Bulldozers and Tractors, Plus Collectibles, Sales Memorabilia, and Brochures (Machinery Hill).

No comments about Great Country Store Antiques.

2 comments about Our California (Our States Series).

1. I ordered this book as a wedding present for a German friend who had spent 6 weeks with me when she was a teenager. She is a nature lover, and this is one of the few books on California that I could find that consisted mostly of photos of the natural beauties of the state and also didn't contain great quantities of text...it included many of the places my friend had seen when she was here.



2. Our California presents an outstanding color photographic album of many of California's finest visual sites. The book is ideal for anyone who has never been to California before and wants to check out the potential scenery in advance. If you are a California lover and want a coffee table book, you should probably look for something built around Ansel Adams's work or any of the other great California photographers.

   I especially enjoyed the nature photography and the many scenes bathed in dawn or sunset light.

   The book abounds in redwood groves, poppy fields, rocky shorelines, foggy hills, thundering water, snow-capped peaks, still lakes, deserts, wildlife, vineyards, city scenes, ghost towns, festivals, architecture from the Mission days through today and amusement parks.

   The photography is routinely splendid. The quality of the paper and the page sizes are such that high quality reproductions are possible. Over 85 percent of the images are beautifully printed. The rest are either too dark or overexposed. That ratio is pretty good for a book in this price range.

   Although unaccompanied by a text, the captions are detailed enough to help you locate where you can see the sights captured here. Many of these views can only be seen at certain times of the year. Be sure to check a travel guide for the best times to go. For example, San Francisco is foggy and cold most days in the summer and rainy in the winter. September and October are better times to be there. The waterfalls in Yosemite are at their peak in the spring.

   I was disappointed to see that there were no whale photographs in the book. You can see grey whales migrating in the spring and fall and there are boats to take you out to see them.