Thursday’s ad is entitled Looking Over the Christmas Cards, and the illustration was done in 1953 by Douglass Crockwell. It’s #89 in a series entitled “Home Life in America,” also known as the Beer Belongs series of ads that the United States Brewers Foundation ran from 1945 to 1956. In this ad, a group of people at a holiday party have become so bored that they’ve started “Looking Over the Christmas Cards.” Luckily, as you can see in the mirror, the host has arrived with more beer. That should help, at least a little.
