Vintage Ads?

Gents,I know it has been a while since I posted so do banish me for being away for so long. I am working on a display case to store many of my razors. As the background, I plan to use vintage shaving ads. As a black man, I would love to find ads that utilize people of color but am not having much luck. Might any of you know of any? Yes I will include photos of the finished product.

1950's add for barbasol.



Found 1 more. Looks to be from the 1970's/80's?

Good to hear from you again, Terence. Good luck in your ad search. If you have as good luck with that as you have had with razors and brushes, you will find hundreds of ads.

Curiously, even a wide collection of vintage ads with black models appears to include no shave products.
http://vintageblackads.tumblr.com/
You can click back issues of Ebony, one by one, going back to 1959, preview them all, and see if you find any shave ads.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Pt...issues_r&cad=1&atm_aiy=1950#all_issues_anchor
JET back to 1951...
http://books.google.com/books?id=5j...sues_r&cad=2_2&atm_aiy=1950#all_issues_anchor
Negro Digest / Black World back to 1961...
http://books.google.com/books?id=Mb...sues_r&cad=2_2&atm_aiy=1960#all_issues_anchor

If any of those links do not work, they are all referenced from an Afrospear blog page.
http://afrospear.com/2009/02/10/access-the-archives-of-ebony-jet-and-the-negro-digest-online/

The USA population was nearly 90% white in the 1950s, nearly 10% black, and only about 1% other, so Gillette, Schick, and the others may have figured they reached a big enough market sticking with white models.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States
There was no ethic of inclusion back then, and the marketers had not yet gotten religion about the benefits of reaching diverse segments. That would at least partly explain the difficulty of finding what you are looking for.

BSA... Thanks I will be back on the prowl soon.

Retro: I have done lots of searching. I am to the point where photos of people shaving would be great as well.

Schick ran ads in Ebony in the 1960s and 70s. Vintage enough? Some featured black customers, models, or company execs (at the time Schick had a black V.P.). They are available on Google books, but not in very high resolution. Knowing the issue you want, though, you might be able to find a copy in a local library.

Gillette also ran ads in Ebony — and still does. Sometimes they did a little work to appeal to the demographic, but not much.

You might like https://books.google.com/books?id=v9gDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA128 too: "The Ebony Man: Everything You Need to Know About Shaving". Sadly the best photo seems to show a Trac II.