Here we have an advertisement with everything from strange cartoon figures to ultra-modern free verse...the moral of which seems to be that you ought to have the Griffing Iron Company provide you with an Empire Steam Heater.
After all, the First Universalist Church in Jersey City has one and they, presumably, rejoice in heat as well as the fact that the two characters on the left do not belong to their congregation.
So please consider the Empire Steam Heater.
For without it, you will be shouted at by a late-Victorian cartoon gnome with anger management problems. And you will start thinking in bad poetry.
Oh, and you'll be cold, too.
From the Visitors' Guide to New York, New Jersey, and Suburbs (1896) at Internet Archive.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Steam Punk'd
Posted by Lidian at 1:00 AM
Labels: 1890s ads, household furnishings, Victorian Cartoons, Victorian Oddities
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6 Comments:
good post friend,thanks for sharing!!
Ha, that is hilarious commentary for an equally bizarre ad!
Norkio - It is a fun ad! I find them, sometimes, buried in the pages of books on Internet Archive...guide books are especially good sources.
I want to send away for the book about "Good Heating". I bet it's riveting!
That angry gnome looks like something from a nightmare!
*shudders*
Hairball - Maybe it is a book of fairy tales, starring the Evil Heating Gnome. Like Grimm, only with steam heat. I would read that!
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