Here's 80 pounds of dirt fom American Homes and Gardens, 1909.

"Which way are you looking?"  From Popular Mechanics, 1919.

From 1881.

If only the water carrier had asked the angel of condensed milk for help with the pump.  From c. 1890.

"Even on calm waters, waves will rise."

There was a time when products were proudly tested on animals.  Plus, there's a capuchin/cappuccino joke in there somewhere.  From c. 1890.

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"I want to be an angel / although to die is hard / But oh the bliss, to think of tihs [sic], / I'll make good Fairbank lard."  From c. 1890.

"An advert advising people to 'Keep and eye on your chest.'  X-rays help to catch Tuberculosis of the lungs early."  From 195?.

The Southern Cross as celestial lemons, as seen from San Fernando.

This is a fairly easy visual puzzle that inexplicably doubled as an ad for coffee, c. 1890.

From an ad in Die Muskete, 1912.

"A woman throwing boxes of the cough-remedy Pulmoserina at lions, representing the ability of Pulmoserina to provide defence against respiratory diseases."  From 1920.

From c. 1890.

"The slave of grease," from c. 1890.

Canned meat is here inserted into a scene from Macbeth.  From c. 1890.

Truth in advertising — they put the word testing in quotation marks and then symbolically acknowledge that it's a bunch of bull.  From c. 1890.

"Booklet advertising Peps tablets for coughs and colds.  Sensational cover (orange and blue) of a skull-faced Death in a swirling dark cloud over a city from which terrified inhabitants are fleeing on foot, in cars, bicycles and horse-drawn carriages.  Refers to deaths during heavy fogs in cities, bronchial asthma, bronchitis, colds, cough, sore throat, pulmonary tuberculosis, influenza, pleurisy, pneumonia and factory cough."  From 1913.

A shooting star of yeast is seen through a yeast-container telescope, from c. 1890.

From c. 1890.