Announcing<\/span> the NEW 1946 Ford!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> (For 2017?\u00a0 Oh, well!)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n ____________________<\/span><\/p>\n This advertisement appeared in The New York Times <\/em>some time in early to mid-1946.\u00a0 It was found, at random, while reviewing that newspaper – “to see what I could see” – for news articles and casualty lists* for the Second World War.<\/span><\/p>\n As then – in the pre-digital-age – as now; as always; advertisements give a symbolic and indirect glimpse into the technology, communication, and way of thinking of an era.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Besides, they look interesting.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n More newspaper advertisements from the 1940s (and even earlier?) will appear in future blog posts.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not aeronautical, not military, but certainly technological… Announcing the NEW 1946 Ford!\u00a0 (For 2017?\u00a0 Oh, well!) ____________________ This advertisement appeared in The New York Times some time in early to mid-1946.\u00a0 It was found, at random, while reviewing that newspaper – “to see what I could see” – for news articles and casualty lists* for … Continue reading The Age of Advertising: Announcing the New 1946 Ford<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7,2],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-art","category-sociology","category-technology","tag-ford-motor-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4674,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/205362_edited-1.jpg\")
<\/a>*The “last” official Army casualty list appeared on May 21, and the “final” Navy casualty list was published on June 9.<\/span><\/p>\n