Photographs, slides and transparencies of advertisements for groceries
J. Sainsbury's ready-packed groceries: "Our stock is always FRESH, our QUALITY the FINEST obtainable, and our PRICES strictly COMPETITIVE";
"Only at Sainsbury's" 'Selsa' products advertisement [part of 70th...
- Ref. No: SA/MARK/ADV/IMA/3/2/4
- Format: Photo - loose inc. contact sheets
- Date: 1910-1990s
- Level: File
- Extent: 1 file
- Access: Open
Image of "Special Offer (May 26th - June 6th) Sainsbury Quality Jam" advertisement
[1920s-1930s]Image of advertisement for a special offer on Sainsbury's apricot, blackcurrant and raspberry jams. Original item at SA/ADV/PRO/22/36.
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Image of "Only at Sainsbury's" Selsa brand advertisement
[1939]Image of advertisement for Sainsbury's Selsa own brand products. Part of the 70th anniversary advertising campaign. Features the slogan "For 70 years - since 1869 - the shops of J. Sainsbury have...
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Image of "Groceries" poem
[1910s-1930s]Image of a poem regarding flies being unable to get into Sainsbury's "fly-proof, germ-proof, dust-proof" tins, featuring an illustration of a fly failing to get into a Finest Ground Ginger tin. The...
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Image of "Cheaper Salmon at Sainsbury's" advertisement
[1898-1930s]Image of an advertisement for "1 -lb Cans of Delicious Red Salmon" at 11½ pence per can, on offer for 14 days at 296 Holloway Road, London N7 branch. Original item at SA/ADV/PRO/22/66.
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Enlarged print of "Have You Tried It? Blue Kaddy Tea" postcard
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Image of Blue Kaddy Tea advertisement featuring Amy Johnson
[c. 1931]The woman featured on the advertisement is Amy Johnson. She was a pioneer female aviator - the first woman to receive the Air Ministry's ground engineers licence and full navigation certificate, and...
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J. Sainsbury's ready-packed groceries: "Our stock is always FRESH, our QUALITY the FINEST obtainable, and our PRICES strictly COMPETITIVE";
"Only at Sainsbury's" 'Selsa' products advertisement [part of 70th anniversary advertising campaign 1939];
tea advertisements: "Money saved is money earned!"; "Mummy buys her TEA at SAINSBURY'S" [The Dollies Tea Party] c.1930s; "16 ozs of Tea make a Pound" [1911]; Blue Kaddy Tea [1930s - "British and Best" and "Have you tried it?"];
drinks: freshly ground coffee; tinned and packet French coffee; tinned and packet pure coffee; tinned and jarred instant coffee; packet 'real' coffee; cocoa and cocoa essence [1909-1920 advertisements]; mineral water (including 'Monastère' spring water); squash (containing more than 10% fruit juice); Free & Clear; Unique water
pasta sauces (including Italian sauces); tomato ketchup; mayonnaise; olive oil; tinned anchovies; tinned sardines in olive oil; Sainsbury's speciality oils ['salad car' advertisement]; soya granules; cooking chocolate;
canned 'Flavourseal' grapefruit; canned fruits in fruit juice; dried fruit (1930s advertisement for Christmas puddings); "Selsa" marmalade;
special offers: British Grown granulated sugar; dried apricots; jam;
bakery products: bread (including bread baked daily, granary wholemeal, French and unsliced), cakes, doughnuts;
price lists: coffee, cocoa, tea and sugars;
copy of pages ('Groceries' and 'Canned Goods and Preserves') from Songs of Sainsbury: 'Food for Thought' by Pin [1928].
Some advertisements feature the slogans: "Good food costs less", "If it isn't better, cheaper or different, it isn't Sainsbury's", "Little things cost less at Sainsbury's"; "J. Sainsbury for QUALITY and VALUE"; "J. Sainsbury For the Finest Quality GROCERIES".
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Advertising leaflets included illustrations and verse by 'Pin', Lady Sybil Grant. Subseries comprises: 'The Careful Choice of Food' or 'A Song of Sainsbury' and 'Food for thought or Songs of Sainsbury' leaflets, and a letter about Pin.
"Songs of Sainsbury" and "Food for thought" verses by Pin, 1920s-1957
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1950s-1980s print advertising (proofs, newspaper and magazine advertisements) not linked to a specific advertising campaign.
1950s-1980s
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