Description
Full color 10″ x 13″ ad that is for Campbell’s Tomato Soup. This ad, another in a group that appeared over a few year’s time, had a photo taken out of a 1921 Saturday Evening Post of an early ad for Campbell’s Tomato Soup which showed that it was selling for “12 cents a can”. The picture has a label indicating that “This ad appeared 42 years ago…” with the question below it asking, “Have you checked the price of Campbell’s Tomato Soup lately?” The ad tells us that “Anyone that goes to the store or pays the bills knows what’s happened to prices over the years. That’s why we thought you might be interested in this advertisement that ran for Campbell’s Tomato Soup on July 2, 1921. It shows the price was 12 cents a can. If you have a grocery store advertisement handy – or if your memory is really good, we think you’ll be mildly amazed to find that this is just about the same price you pay today…same size can, of course”.
Source: December 3, 1963 Look magazine.
