If you needed bones or perhaps an entire skeleton, Gustave Noque was your man. This ad for his “osteological preparations” store on East 26th Street appeared in the back of Long Island City’s Bryant High School yearbook in 1916, amid more tepid advertisements for ice cream parlors and produce stands.
It’s a little jarring, especially in a nice little yearbook, but future medical students have to learn anatomy somehow.
Tags: Bryant High School, Long Island City, Skeletons for sale
August 25, 2008 at 3:47 pm |
It sounds like he supplies bones that are not necessarily attached to skeletons, as well as skeletons…what a great ad (and a great name too).
August 25, 2008 at 7:43 pm |
Looks as if good old Gustave, learned in the early nineteen hundreds, a ghouly profitable way of “making his bones!”
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