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2019-06-11

1900s, 1909, emoticons, magazine, newspaper, print.

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Typographic faces in The Strand magazine, England, March 1909. from yesterdaysprint

The bottom ones are very similar to these emoticons from 1881.

2016-05-28

1800s, advertising, newspaper, usa.

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In the 1870′s, Brooklyn Furniture Company spent more on ads than any other furniture company. And they did plenty of text graphics!

More in this ASCII-detective story.

2015-10-16

1940s, 1944, advertising, newspaper, print, usa.

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ASCII-style typewriter art in a 1944 ad for correspondence schools. From here, via ascii-art

2015-05-24

1800s, 1893, newspaper, poetry, print.

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Visual poem by H.C Dodge, 1893. See the full page here. via ASCII art.

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