VARI-VUE Alka-Seltzer Ad
VARI-VUE Alka-Seltzer Ad
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- Description
- This is a small, 1960s flicker advertisement created by the Vari-Vue Company. The ad is selling Alka-Seltzer and it features a smiling mascot standing in front of a cup with bubbling Alka-Seltzer tablet in it. The mascot is wearing a suit that likens the medicine company’s signature fizzing tablets and a hat that reads “Pron-Tito” or, speedy, in Spanish.
- Object Name
- ad
- Physical Description
- yellow (overall color)
- aqua (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- plastic (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 cm x 3.5 cm; 1 3/16 in x 1 3/8 in
- ID Number
- 2015.3087.01
- catalog number
- 2015.3087.01
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3087
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- Work and Industry: Retail and Marketing
- Advertising
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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