~ The Ladies’ Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners; or, Miss Leslie’s Behaviour Book, a Guide and Manual for Ladies, by Eliza Leslie, 1864
via Open Library

~ The Whittier News, December 7, 1920
via Whittier Digital Archives

~ The Bazar Book of Decorum. The Care of the Person, Manners, Etiquette, and Ceremonials, by Robert Tomes, 1870
via Internet Archive

“Employers will be forced, sooner or later, to seek for their servants exclusively among civilized people…”

~ The Referee & Cycling Trade Journal: A Weekly Record and Review of Cycling and the Cycling Trade, 1893

~ Student’s Hand-book of Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina; 1919-1920

~ The Pacific Monthly, vol. 12 July-January 1909
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“If you would know more about the wonders of Vacuum Cleaning send for this book.”

~ Understand Your Child-From 6 to 12, Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 144; by Clara Lambert, 1948
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~ Poster Bulletin No. 24, North Carolina State College of Agriculture, 1917
via National Agricultural Library
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“The garden is not entirely for the farm wife - men must help”

~ advertisement from Charleston’s Historic Houses, 1953; Historic Charleston Foundation
via Lowcountry Digital Library
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Benne: Southern U.S., especially South Carolina, and Bahamian English - the sesame plant or its seeds. (dictionary.com)

~ Colored Directory, Topeka, Kansas, 1934
via Kansas Historical Foundation

“The Best Equipped Colored Golf Course in Kansas”

~San Jose News, January 26, 1932

~ Colored Directory: information, history, facts, also buyer’s guide of the best business places appreciating your patronage, Topeka, Kansas; April 1928
via Kansas Memory

~ Pears’ Soap, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899).

Thanks to Alexa for sending me the link to this advertisement. She describes it as “kind of frightening…” which pretty much says it all…