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| Full color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad for Green Giant Peas. The ad headline introduces "A Botany Lesson for Pea Lovers" and the text gives a short history of the evolution of Peas. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
December 18, 1939 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for Green Giant Niblets Corn. The ad is entitled "Midnight in the Kitchen" and has a seven frame cartoon that shows the Green Giant coming out of the can and working his magic on the product. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
December 16, 1940 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for Green Giant Niblets - Fresh Corn Off The Cob. This ad has a drawing that is showing several men working in their full corn field, busily tossing corn into the back of the trailer wagon. This drawing is entitled "HARVEST HOME in the Land of the Green Giant". The text of the ad says that "Forest of stalks on parade in Hiawatha-land...There is something marvelous and mighty when a cornfield has come to its harvest time...The little seed of May is the majestic plant of August...Life's cycle of corn is complete...The green is gold...The gold is ready for man's taking...The new pack is coming in!". There is an opened can of Green Giant Niblets Corn sitting there with the words "It takes a lot of things to make Niblets Brand whole kernel corn what it is. Special seed (D.138). Good 'Indian Country' earth - and sun and rain. Care of good farmers - and the secret of picking it at just the right time for tenderness and fresh corn taste." |
August 10, 1942 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad for Green Giant Peas and Whole Kernel Corn. This wartime ad has a headline of "How to Eat like a Patriot" and gives tips on how to avoid wasting food and money. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
February 7, 1944 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad that tells "How the Green Giant was born". The ad claims that he is a combination of Paul Bunyon, the giant from Grimm's Fairy Tales and Indian legend. The ad mentions four varieties of canned food, Green Giant Peas, Niblets Whole Kernal Corn, Niblets Mexicorn and Del Maiz Cream Style Corn. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
July 15, 1946 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 12" ad for Green Giant Peas. The ad has a photo of a silver platter full of peas sitting in front of a purple orchid with a dark background behind them all. The ad headline claims this product is the "Orchid of the Pea Family". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 21, 1946 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for Green Giant Sweet Peas. The ad has a picture of an evening where a green man wearing green clothes with spiked hair is squatting down in a field filled with pea plants as he gives a sleepy grin to the camera. The headline calls this a "Rhapsody in Green" and the text talks about the green of Springtime and how the Green Giant protecively watches over his plants. It mentions the use of special seed (S-537), timely picking and being canned within three hours of being picked. |
May 12, 1947 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for Green Giant Big Tender Sweet Peas. There is a drawing of a family of three throwing their arms out in glee toward a giant can of this product that has the top removed and the headline lets us know that the "New Pack's Ready". There is a picture of musician Fred Waring answering the many questions about where the spirited theme song for Green Giant has come from. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
August 30, 1948 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad that is for their Green Giant Niblets Mexicorn that was Whole Kernel Corn, Sweet Red and Green Peppers. At the top of the page there is a very appetizing plate of this product, corn with pieces of red and green scattered throughout, under the headline that says that it is a "ot of Gold with the rainbow left in. It's Niblets Brand Corn with Sweet Red and Green Peppers". The text describes it as "Down with drabness! Up with color and flavor! Viva Niblets Brand Mexicorn! The famous golden corn (and the peppers too) are grown from our own special seeds by a scientific system of Flavor Farming. Packed for you in a beautifully blended flavor combination that folks cheer for. Try it and see why". |
December 13, 1948 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for Green Giant Niblets Whole Kernel Corn. The ad has a three series photo sequence that shows you how to prepare your meal: Hold the can, open the can and then pour the can into a pan to cook. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
May 23, 1949 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad with a drawing of a giant peapod, big enough to hold seven cans of Green Giant Peas. The ad headline describes this as a "New Pack! (Dewy Fresh)". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
August 29, 1949 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for Green Giant Niblets Corn. The ad has a drawing of a platter with two different color schemes, filled with two different kinds of Green Giant corn with the respective cans underneath. The platter is seperated with a sign post that identifies the different flavors as Niblets Brtand Mexicorn and Niblets Brand Sweet Corn.. The ad headline claims that there are "Two ways to go - with one happy ending" because "One way or the other everybody likes Niblets Brand Corn".. |
May 22, 1950 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for Green Giant Great Big Tender Sweet Peas. The ad has a picture of an open can of Peas that is surrounded by a wreath made from peas still in the pod and tied off with a red ribbon. The ad headline, reflecting the time of the season, reminds us that it is the "Time for tenderness". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
December 10, 1951 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for Green Giant Cream Style Corn. There is a picture of a street corner next to a bus stop where two baby carriages are stopped and their owners are comparing their wards. The headline has the oversize Green Giant saying "First time out" while wearing white gloves with a white scarf and brown hat as he gestures toward the can of Green Giant Brand Cream Style Del Maiz-Golden Sweet Corn that occupies most of the baby carriage that he stands behind. The lady he is talking to has clasped her hands in joy as she "Ooohhs" and "aaahhs". |
October 13, 1952 Life magazine |
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| Full color 7 1/2" x 10 3/4" ad that calls you attention to their Green Giant Cream Style Corn. This ad, which is a smaller version of another ad on this page, shows a lady who has been pushing her baby carriage and has stopped next to a Bus Stop. The Green Giant, dapper with a white scarf and a brown hat to go along with his white cloves and cane, has been pushing a carriage that has a large can of this product protruding out of the top. He seems to be boasting as the headline has him saying "First Time Out" and the text talks about this "corn so rich and creamy" and claims that grocers are urgint you to "Try it tonight". In the picture there is also a brown bowl filled with this product with an opened can that is filled to a "you won't move it without spilling it" level. |
November 1952 Good Housekeeping |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Green Giant Peas. The ad has a picture of the big guy delivering a basket of fresh-picked pods to a lady who seems extremely happy with the service. The headline urges you to "Open the door to Spring" and claims "The Green Giant puts June on your doorstep with his fresh-picked, baby-tender peas". The text claims that opening and serving a can of these is "just as though the Green Giant stepped out to the garden and picked a batch of peas for you". The claim is made that these are "picked at the fleeting moment of perfect flavor and packed into cans almost before the dewdrops have a chance to dry". |
March 23, 1953 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Green Giant Peas. The ad has a drawing of a can of these peas with the top removed to illustrate how tempting they look and a note left by a husband for his wife. The note says "Get the Big Sweet Ones with the thin skins" and the ad headline calls this a "Sweet reminder for dinner tonight". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
January 18, 1954 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for their Great Big Tender Sweet Peas. There is a picture of a naked Cupid flying as he shoots an arrow past an opened can of this product as the caption calls it a "lovin' touch for any meal". The text refers to their popularity by saying that "More folks 'go steady' with Green Giant Brand Peas than with any other kind". It talks about the "prized seeds" being grown in "special soil" and being "picked and packed at the fleeting moment of perfect flavor". |
November 12, 1956 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 3/4" x 14" ad that is for Green Giant Great Big Tender Sweet Peas. At the top of the ad there is a picture of a can of Green Giant Sweet Peas opened up with Cupid next to it shooting an arrow toward the Green Giant Sweet Peas that the woman in the next drawing is serving her husband. The ad says that "One date and you'll "go steady" with the Green Giant flavor". It then says that "It's a tender moment when you meet these sweet young things. The peas with the Green Giant label. Pampered darlings of the pea world. You should see the loveing care they get! We plant the choicest seed in specially conditioned soil. Measure the sunshine and rainfall they get. Do just about everything but tuck them in at night. Then we pick and pack them at the fleeting moment of perfect flavor. The Green Giant flavor. How about a rendezvous? This very day". |
December 17, 1956 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad has a little Cupid floating next to a can of peas and shooting an arrow through a pea from a bowl being served on a dinner table. The ad headline claims that it is "So nice to come home to the Green Giant flavor". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
February 11, 1957 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for their cans of Great Big Tender Sweet Peas. There is a picture of an opened can of this product with Cupid standing on some unpicked pods shooting an arrow toward a couple that are standing by the dining room table where the husband is getting ready to sample from a platter of peas that his wife is bringing for dinner. The caption, referring to the food and the couple, says "Love at first taste" and the text talks about some of the many things that make people have a "lifelong romance" with their products. The ad also mentions that there is a "Small Size for Small Families, too! 8-oz. can, 2 to 3 servings". |
April 8, 1957 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for their Niblets Fresh Corn. The ad has pictured an opened can with a red lightening bolt shooting through it as the headline announces "now! quick-cooked corn". At the bottom of the ad is a four-frame drawing that shows a busy mother coming home from the grocery store with a bag filled with groceries, she opens a can of Niblets Fresh Corn and pours the contents into a waiting pan, next she brings a bowl of warmed-up corn to the table where her husband and young son look approvingly at it and the last picture shows the three of them happily spooning this product into their smiling mouths. The text explains that with vegetables the "less time you cook 'em, the fresher they look and taste - the better they nourish". It mentions that a different new pressure cooker is responsible for the improvement and that it was available in two family sizes. |
April 22, 1957 Life magazine |
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| Full color 10" x 13 1/2" ad that is about Green Giant Golden Sweet Corn Cream Style and their method of telling "Which one is the new Green Giant cream style corn". There is a picture in the ad that shows nine unmarked cans of Corn with this headline under the photo. The ad tells us that "If you picked the bright colored one on the left in the middle row, you know a good thing when you see it. But if you weren't able to see the difference in our picture, you'll be able to taste it. Because this is Green Giant's new quick-cooked cream style corn. It's different than all other cream style corns because it's quick-cooked to save all the fresh color and flavor. The Green Giant first introduced quick-cooking to America in his Niblets Brand whole kernel corn. Today, it's the best-loved corn in the land. Now he brings this flavor-saving, color-saving process to cream style corn. It's so different the Green Giant even patented the way he puts it up. See and taste the difference quick-cooking makes. Try new Green Giant brand Quick-Cooked Cream Style Corn". |
February 17, 1961 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Sweet Peas. The ad has a picture of a farm in the middle of the night and the Green Giant is kneeling in the field and moving the moon a little closer so its light is able to help the farmers harvest their product. The headline begins "Why the Green Giant harvests by moonlight" and the text explains that, in reality, the harvest takes place "when the fleeting moment of perfect flavor arrives". So, day or night, when the right time comes, the harvest will begin and the perfect product will be placed on your grocer's shelf. |
September 22, 1961 Life magazine |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad with a picture of a little girl holding up her 4-foot Jolly Green Giant Rag Doll that she received for $3.50 and 2 labels from any Green Giant product. The ad calls this a "Special offer for boys and girls who eat their vegetables" and shows cans of Sweet Peas, Early Peas, Niblets, Mexicorn, Cream Style Corn, White Corn, Green Beans and Asparagus Spears. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 19, 1962 Life magazine |
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| Full color 8 3/4" x 12" ad with a headline that says that "The Jolly Green Giant wants to put his foot down (on your floor)". The ad text describes a rug in the shape of a foot that can be purchased with $2.50 and 2 can labels or frozen package fronts from Green Giant vegetables. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 1967 Better Homes & Gardens |
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