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"I cannot tell a lie" Del Monte California Canned Fruits and Vegetables ad

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Title: "I cannot tell a lie" Del Monte California Canned Fruits and Vegetables ad
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918/ /
Contributing Institution: History San Jose Research Library
Collection: History San Jose Online Catalog
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Description: Reproduction of an advertisement that ran in the February 23, 1918 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. The tagline is "I cannot tell a lie -- I did it with my little can opener," featuring an illustration by Norman Rockwell, part of a series of ads created for the California Packing Corporation by the H. K. McCann Company (later McKann-Erickson, Inc.), San Francisco. The ad coincided with Washington's Birthday. A caption on the mount at the bottom of the ad indicates that it was presented to Mark H. Bagley.
Type: image
Identifier: BB69E986-1BE3-4029-9CA9-765737198440
1997-216-1237
Subject: Advertising
California Packing Corporation
Del Monte (Brand)
Del Monte Corporation
Fruit industry
Presidents

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