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Culture, Posters & Adverts · 1862 · Waverley corridor

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Records must match the selected period. Films must additionally connect to the Waverley corridor—Edinburgh, Midlothian, the Borders or the route itself—so unrelated Glasgow and Highlands material no longer appears here. Broader period posters remain clearly labelled as context.

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Adverts, posters & visual culture · 1862

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Bovril poster from about 1900 showing a bull leaning from a railway-carriage windowc. 1900Is this train right for Bovril?Fry's Chocolate advertisement published in 18631863Fry's ChocolateTwo-sided Victorian Sunlight Soap advertisement1880sWhy Does a Woman Look Old Sooner Than a Man?Two-sided leaflet advertising Swan Soap and Ogden's Guinea Gold cigarettes1890sSwan Soap and Ogden's Guinea Gold CigarettesInterpretive illustration for Highland News: Baking Powder, Bovril and Local Notices6 February 1897Highland News: Baking Powder, Bovril and Local Notices1880 Allen and Sons cocoa advertisement contrasting two households1880Allen & Sons Cocoa1898 Art Nouveau JOB cigarette-paper poster by Alphonse Mucha1898JOB Cigarette Papers1896 JOB cigarette poster by Alphonse Mucha1896JOBWoman in theatrical costume smoking and holding a cigarette packet around 1900c. 1900The Cigarette GirlInterpretive illustration for From Wool to Wearer1913From Wool to WearerInterpretive illustration for Jenners at the Scottish National Exhibition1908Jenners at the Scottish National ExhibitionInterpretive illustration for Jenners Grand Hall1897Jenners Grand Hall
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Digitised Scottish newspaper · 6 February 1897

Highland News: Baking Powder, Bovril and Local Notices

The transcribed page combines Royal Baking Powder and Bovril advertising with Inverness news, deaths and printing notices, preserving products within their actual newspaper setting.

Interpretive illustration · not an archive imageNational Library of Scotland / Western Isles Libraries · Archive link – copyright undetermined

Edinburgh retail interior · 1897

Jenners Grand Hall

Bedford Lemere's photograph records the new Jenners interior, including merchandise, mannequins, balconies, stairs, electric lighting and the glass roof.

Interpretive illustration · not an archive imageEdinburgh Libraries, Capital Collections · Source link – image reuse unconfirmed