Postcard History

January 15, 2025

Tag: cigarette ad campaigns

  • I’d Rather Fight than Switch

    I’d Rather Fight than Switch

    Bob Toal

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    Selling tobacco with a symbol (the tobacco-store indian statue) or a slogan (“I’d rather fight than switch”) has a long and storied history. But “I’d rather fight than switch” wasn’t original with the old Taryton brand. Here’s the story.

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Past Article

Timothy Van Staden
April 25, 2022 5 Comments
Some postcard publishers set boundaries to one part of a country, state, or location, or set limitations on their themes. That was not the case with the Tichnor Brothers of Boston. In the linen era of postcards Tichnor produced more than 25,000 postcards from across America. Read on to discover more.

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