Golden gloved hands glide over a red and gray Underwood Touch-Master II typewriter in this dramatic 1959 ad. The black background, "Golden-Touch ty...

A bold red RYDER logo tops this 1959 truck leasing ad, which pairs a sketch-style illustration of a Ford dump truck and power shovel with the pitch...

This 1959 Avis Rent-a-Car ad shows a man in a turban and a uniformed stewardess striding past a gleaming Ford beside a velvet rope, under the sloga...

A man in glasses stands beside a Kodak Pageant 16mm sound projector while two polar bear cubs glow on the screen behind him in this black and white...

Seventeen 1959 Chevrolet cars and wagons form a giant circle on a green lawn around a family and a Chevy bowtie in this color two-page ad. A number...

A businessman in a fedora walks past a Beechcraft Travel Air twin-engine plane with two colleagues behind him in this black and white 1959 ad. Unsh...

Three clocks and three silver dollars line up above a Monro-Matic calculator in this black and white 1959 Monroe ad built around the word Timeandpr...

A red Buick convertible with sweeping tail fins sits on a golden sunset beach in this 1959 ad that declares, "The clean winged style of Buick '59!"...

A white Canadian Pacific "Empress" ocean liner glides past the Chateau Frontenac at Quebec in this painted 1959 travel ad, inviting readers to "Sai...

This 1959 Columbia Records ad features a moody color portrait of conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, the music director of the New York Philh...

A giant wheel-shaped space research laboratory orbits above the moon in this 1959 Lockheed ad, backed by photos of F-104 Starfighters, a Q-5 Kingfi...

"More Construction Ahead!" announces this 1959 United Gas ad for the Gulf South, which sets a green-tinted aerial photo of an industrial building s...

A red-haired woman and a man in black-framed glasses peer over a road map in this playful 1959 Hertz ad, shown twice to illustrate "With Hertz you ...

A framed painting shows Senator Daniel Webster visiting his friend James Crow at the log distillery in this 1959 Old Crow Bourbon ad. Below it, a b...

"Announcing Braniff's Jet Power Electra" sweeps across this 1959 black and gray airline ad, with a prop-jet soaring overhead and a stewardess in un...

A man in a Tempawate suit leans on a suitcase with a straw hat in hand in this black and white 1959 Hart Schaffner & Marx ad, "The suit that kn...

A burgundy Imperial LeBaron Silvercrest Landau sits before white columns while a woman in a pale gown and a man in a tuxedo stand beside it in this...

An oil painting of the Code of Hammurabi shows a Babylonian court scene in this color 1959 Parke-Davis ad from its "Great Moments in Medicine" seri...

A scientist in a lab coat stands beside an abstract machine photo in this black and white 1959 Monsanto ad titled "Conquest in Health." Small photo...

A smiling couple walks away from a jet engine in this black and white 1959 National Airlines ad promising New York to Miami in 135 minutes, with a ...

A silhouetted gentleman with a cane bows toward a giant glass in this bright orange and yellow 1959 I.W. Harper ad, "It's always a pleasure." Two b...

A bottle of Old Forester Kentucky Straight Bourbon, a pour shot and a white orchid sit against a blue background in this color 1959 ad touting bott...

Capital Airlines Captain Mel Garlow, a pilot, smiles in uniform in this black and white 1959 ad about becoming America's first airline pilot to fly...

Rocket pioneer Robert Goddard stars in this color 1959 John Hancock Mutual Life ad titled "He opened the door to space." It ties the Space Age to a...

A hand holds a Norelco Speedshaver against a starry sky in this black and white 1959 ad announcing that "the future of shaving has arrived." The $2...

A red Fiat Series 1200 sedan with a woman driver shares the page with a rider on horseback above big green FIAT letters in this color 1959 ad, "A s...

A steelworker walks a girder high above a city street in this black and white 1959 America Fore Loyalty Group ad, "It takes know-how to contend wit...

A glass with lime and a bottle of Gordon's gin sit in front of an old English fishing scene in this color 1959 ad, "In spring, when drinks grow tal...

A woman in a swimsuit and heart-shaped sunglasses lounges in a beach chair with her long bare legs stretched out while a shirtless man sits behind ...

Families hold marine radios and depth sounders in a Miami boatyard in this black and white 1959 Raytheon ad, "Now boating is safer, more fun." A nu...

A fancy mantel clock, two old fashioned cocktails and a bottle of Old Charter bourbon fill this rich color 1959 ad, "Tick-tock quietly aged to perf...

Col. Frank Thompson, Chairman of the Board, and Col. James Campbell, Director, of Glenmore Distilleries pose in front of the warehouses in this col...

Red globes, a golden astronomical chart, wheat stalks and a trowel make an artistic collage in this color 1959 First National City Bank of New York...

An orange 1959 Dodge Sweptline pickup is loaded for go in this bright color ad from Dodge Trucks. It highlights push-button driving, a 205-horsepow...

Leslie G. Brownlee Jr. of Cleveland relaxes with a daiquiri beside golf professional Ed Dudley at the Dorado Beach course in this color 1959 ad for...

A smiling secretary pulls a folder from a General Fireproofing Super-Filer in this black and white 1959 ad with the giant word FASTER across the ph...

A pedestal tray of champagne, fruit, cheese and cigarettes stars in this black and white 1959 Qantas ad, "This is a picture of the mighty Qantas Je...

A giggling baby with a food-smeared face and bib reaches for a spoon held by his grinning father against a sunny yellow backdrop in this color 1959...

Boatyard painters scrape and paint red, yellow and white hulls on a sunny beach in this color two-page 1959 Chase Manhattan Bank ad titled Paint Co...

A boy in a plaid shirt pours ice cold lemonade at his handmade stand while a man in a suit and hat looks on, in this black and white 1959 First Nat...

A skier in red leaps across a glacier crevasse in the French Alps in this color 1959 Canadian Club whisky ad, told in four numbered photo steps fro...

A cutaway illustration of Continental's Golden Jet Boeing 707 spans two pages in this 1959 ad, showing passengers, stewardesses and gold carpet ser...

Actor Gregory Peck holds a small fold of cash and a signed American Express Travelers Cheque in this black and white 1959 ad, with a handwritten li...

Col. Frank Thompson, chairman of the board of Glenmore Distilleries, leans on a white fence behind a chestnut mare and her foal in this color 1959 ...

A red Pall Mall pack lies among bright strawberries in this color 1959 ad with the headline "Get satisfying flavor, so friendly to your taste!" A s...

A white Borzoi Russian Wolfhound named Baron Wolfschmidt wears a red bow against a bright yellow background beside a Wolfschmidt's Vodka bottle in ...

A wife and little girl wave to a businessman at the rail as the Beechcraft Twin-Bonanza unloads executives in this black and white 1959 ad. The hea...

A striped coffee cup and two doughnuts sit on top of a Dictaphone Time-Master dictating machine in this black and white 1959 ad with a pop of red. ...