Johnson Smith Company {1938} Catalog on CD
The Johnson Smith Company is a mail-order company officially established in 1914 by Alfred Johnson Smith in Chicago, Illinois, USA (but originally began in 1905 in Australia) that sells novelty and gag gift items such as x-ray goggles, whoopee cushions, fake vomit, and joy buzzers.
The company would normally put ads in magazines devoted to children and young adults such as Popular Mechanics and Science Digest. Their ads appeared on the back cover of many historically significant comic books, including Action Comics #1, June 1938 (first appearance of Superman).
In 2014, the company will mark its 100 year anniversary! Not bad for a company selling cheap novelties, bad jokes, and all sorts of other fun stuff we hate to admit we love.....
This Gift Quality CD is a tribute to the Johnson Smith Co., and all the fun stuff we enjoyed as kids, a terrific 580 page catalog from 1938.
1890 Jewel Stoves
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Sample thumbnails taken from the collection.
(Low resolution thumbnails - CD/DVD images are scanned at 300 DPI)
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