Advertisement featuring a caricatured image of a Pullman porter

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An advertisement for the Fashion Publicity Company clipped from The Ladies' Home Journal for September, 1919. The advertisement features a color illustration of a caricatured Pullman porter figure bringing shoes to a woman in a green train car. The porter is depicted in a grey uniform with dark pants. At bottom left is text with information on the Fashion Publicity Company and an imagined conversation between the woman and the porter about her "F.B. & C." shoes. On the reverse is a full-page color advertisement for Sunkist oranges.

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