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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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Beef-extract advertising · c. 1900

Is this train right for Bovril?

A bull leans from a railway-carriage window to ask whether the train is ‘right for Bovril’. The visual joke shows how the beef-extract brand used railway travel and humour to become a household name around 1900; the carriage is advertising imagery, not evidence for a Waverley service or station.

Bovril company / Victoria and Albert Museum, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain – UK anonymous work

Chocolate advertising · 1863

Fry's Chocolate

An 1863 Fry's Chocolate advertisement from a contemporary traveller's book records the emergence of nationally recognisable branded food advertising at the start of the through-route period.

J. S. Fry & Sons, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Soap advertising · 1880s

Why Does a Woman Look Old Sooner Than a Man?

Lever Brothers used an anxiety-provoking question about women's appearance to sell Sunlight Soap, recording the gendered language of late-Victorian consumer advertising.

Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark

Two-sided product advertising · 1890s

Swan Soap and Ogden's Guinea Gold Cigarettes

A single Lever Brothers leaflet paired Swan White Floating Soap with an Ogden's Guinea Gold cigarette advertisement on its reverse, preserving an unusually revealing two-product object.

Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark

Cocoa advertising · 1880

Allen & Sons Cocoa

This London cocoa advertisement contrasts a poor household with a comfortable middle-class family, using class and domestic aspiration to sell a nationally marketed drink.

Allen & Sons / British Library, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Tobacco poster · 1898

JOB Cigarette Papers

Alphonse Mucha's celebrated design turns flowing hair, smoke and ornament into an overtly glamorous identity for JOB cigarette papers.

Historical tobacco advertising; smoking is harmful and this record is not promotional guidance.Alphonse Mucha / Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons · Public Domain Mark

Tobacco poster · 1896

JOB

Mucha's earlier JOB poster entwines a woman's profile, cigarette smoke and decorative lettering into a luxury commercial image.

Historical tobacco advertising; smoking is harmful and this record is not promotional guidance.Alphonse Mucha, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Cigarette advertising photograph · c. 1900

The Cigarette Girl

A posed performer in an exoticised costume smokes while presenting a cigarette packet, preserving the period's fusion of spectacle, femininity and tobacco sales.

Historical tobacco advertising includes exoticised imagery; smoking is harmful.Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons · Public Domain Mark

Edinburgh retail advertising · 1908

Jenners at the Scottish National Exhibition

The Jenners advertisement promoted a working exhibit making Scotch hand-tufted carpets and tartan travelling rugs. Capital Collections also records the special NBR station used by exhibition crowds.

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