IMAGE
Four Square Stores :Four Square Store [cover of jigsaw puzzle envelope. 1950s?]
- Date
- 1950 - 1959
- Reference
- Eph-F-GAMES-1950s-05-cover
- Description
The image shows a montage of advertising labels for products sold at Four Square stores: Weet bix, Pam's baking powder, Peter the Pilot's O-Tis energy food, Milo, Sanitarium puffed wheat, Listerine toothpaste, Chesdale cheese, Windolene, Johnson's baby powder, Wylie's Brufax, Quickshine floor polish, Sunshine packet soup, Yates' reliable seeds, Bovo meat extract, Sunshine Jellies, Glacia table salt, Aerofos aerator, Palmolive soap. A woman looks at the display from the far left.
The same image is on the jigsaw puzzle.
Artist may be Bernard Roundhill; see https://longwhitekid.wordpress.com/2013/12, retrieved 19 August 2014. But author of Longwhitekid believed (in 2016) that artist may have been Frederick Carr.
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Photolithograph on cover of envelope, 225 x 328 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original. File print in Ephemera drawers in Reading Room.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Four Square Stores :Four Square jigsaw puzzle, an interesting game for children of all ages. Fully interlocking - 140 pieces [1950s?]
- Format
- 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Jigsaw puzzles, Advertisements, Photolithograph on cover of envelope, 225 x 328 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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