Category: Blasts from the Past!

Old News of the Day–May 3-7

Although we in the NJ Digital Newspaper Project office see plenty of images that make us do a double-take, we needed a minute to take in everything going on in this advertisement for a Barnum and Bailey Circus performance from…

Old News of the Day–April 27-30

Traveling around New Jersey’s historical newspapers for late April into early May, some ads caught our eyes. The first, from the April 29, 1870 West-Jersey Pioneer and advertises the latest in clothes washing technology! This advertisement from the April 27,…