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Old New Yorker Ad: Our Readers Are So Rich, They STILL Have Slaves

Old New Yorker Ad: Our Readers Are So Rich, They STILL Have Slaves

While perusing old advertising trade journals, I came across this ad for the New Yorker. You win if you can correctly answer what the message is here: New Yorker readers are under-exercised fat cats? That blackface was more common in hotels than we ever thought? That retail stores once secretly conspired with the New Yorker’s ad department to divulge customers’ sales histories?