You Know What They Say: Big Feet, Big Cigars — 1877
by Paula Bosse
“Go to Ben Loeb’s” — 1877 advertisement
by Paula Bosse
Not your typical advertising cut. Wonder if ol’ Ben paid a local artist a handful of cigars in exchange for this great eye-catching art?
An early subliminal ad?
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Ad from The Dallas Herald, July 7, 1877.
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Flashback : Dallas 
1870’s was a very good year for Dallas the town that would become a city and adds of this period are quite comical and have much humor today and yet that was the happin point of the old west days which began around the time railroad came to town….great lineup and find from the 1877 period.
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It’s really nice. Perhaps it comes from Jose Posada’s little-studied Dallas period.
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Ha!
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