Here we present three more images from the current National Libary of Australia Asian Collections Thai Ephemera display.
“Smoke this medicine to treat sinus, chronic cold/flu, reduce asthma etc.” From: นิตยสารไทยใหม่ 1937.
“Our brand of gasoline has more power than an elephant!” From: หนังสือสนองโอฐสภากาชาดสยาม 1930.
Nang Loeng Art Photo Studio “we use unique lighting to make your face beautiful!” From: หนังสือประชานุเคราะห์ 1935
[This post is provided by the National Library of Australia as part of our Book Zone feature. For further information on the featured publications contact Saowapha Viravong at sviravong@nla.gov.au]
3 responses so far ↓
1 Andrew Walker // Jul 18, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Why is the elephant farting?
2 michael // Jul 18, 2009 at 7:30 pm
It’s probably just heard about your silly naming competition for its great-grandchild, which could lead to damaging complications, given the rampant paranoia (and probably, in one case, megalomania) of certain fairly powerful idiots in Thailand.
3 Lleij Samuel Schwartz // Jul 19, 2009 at 12:49 pm
re: Andrew
Obviously, the poor elephant is evacuating its bowels in abject terror, as it’s about to be run over by an automobile made more powerful than an elephant, thanks to Standard Oil.
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