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"Maw, whar's your politeness? I tole you befor'
To never com' in till you knock on de door'"
Date: 1907
Source Type: Postcard
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: H-O Company (#2, Series A)
Postmark: None
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: A malted corn flake cereal served hot or cold, Korn Kinks was produced and distributed by the H-O Company of Buffalo, New York, from circa 1890 to 1910. The cereal was advertised in such magazines as Ladies Home Journal, The Cosmopolitan, The American Magazine, and Good Housekeeping.
H-O Company's advertising campaign, by today's cultural standards, was very racist. The mascot of Korn Kinks cereal was a character named Kornelia Kinks, the young black girl seen here. Members of Kornelia's family are featured on other Korn Kinks postcards, all caricatured with enlarged lips, bare feet, and bulging eyes.
A set of six souvenir postcards called "Jocular Jinks of Kornelia Kinks" were produced starting in 1906. These postcards depict Kornelia and her high jinks.
One early magazine advertisement for Korn Kinks states:
"DOES yo' know how easy it is to get my six postal cards? Yo' just cut out of the Korn - Kinks boxes two ob de man and boy pickchures and send 'em to me, care of Mr. H-O Company, with four cents in stamps. I'll send yo' six o' de funniest postal cards yo' ever saw, all erbout me. Dey is suttenly worth twenty-five cents, an' dey would cost you dat anyway if it wasn't for me making it this easy for yo' to get dem. Dere ain't a particle of advertising on dem." -- Kornelia Kinks
Text on reverse --
JOCULAR JINKS OF KORNELIA KINKS
Copyright 2010. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
This one is for the monochromatic swap on swap-bot.
Created from a recycled cereal box, leftover collage bits, vintage soda label, my photo, chopstick wrapper, paint swatch, postage stamp, used ticket, candy wrapper, Tiffany jewelry catalog, and parrots from a discarded book.
Telling you guys about my "Stage Scenery and Props" set reminded me that I never uploaded this year's stage props I made. These were made for a production of "Cats". The director wanted huge garbage pieces, so I made a couple.
Sorry so many, I just wanted to get these online and into the set while I was thinking of it!
makeup // Carmen Wilson
model // Emily Willson
Photography // Images: Tuffer
Strobist-ism: 540ez with orange gel in far back bounced off wall. 540ez in 28" softbox to camera left high. 540ez with cerealbox snoot to camera right. triggered by pwII and optical.
Handmade journal using a cereal box for the cover. Added 2 pieces of paper cups for interest.
Might make this a giveaway at my blog.
Special Target Breakfast Cereal Retro Packaging, Cocoa Krispies and Froot Loops! With Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube. Please Crop Pictures to suit! I left bleed around all edges. Feel free to use this Flickr picture under Creative Commons Attribution online!!
more images and items from my collection at my blogspot page:
At 5'1" everything on the top shelves of my kitchen cabinets is out of reach. That's why I have this handy tool that works great for bags and boxes. It's not great for glass bottles, as I've found to my sorrow, and I have to get a step stool or my son to retrieve those.
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #11 - Out of reach.
more items from my collection are here:
Telling you guys about my "Stage Scenery and Props" set reminded me that I never uploaded this year's stage props I made. These were made for a production of "Cats". The director wanted huge garbage pieces, so I made a couple.
Sorry so many, I just wanted to get these online and into the set while I was thinking of it!
I liked the original cute little toast and cinnamon shaker mascots a LOT more than the CTC bakers that came later.
Leyendecker created a series of twenty children enjoying bowls of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes as part of a major advertising campaign in 1915-1917.
Leyendecker’s work for Kellogg’s is an interesting chapter in both advertising history and his own illustrious career. The campaign featured charming illustrations of children—often dubbed the “Kellogg’s Kids”—each enjoying a bowl of Corn Flakes. These images weren’t just cute; they were strategic.
At the time, Kellogg’s was pioneering the idea of long-running, themed advertising campaigns, and Leyendecker’s illustrations helped solidify the brand’s identity. His signature style—clean lines, expressive faces, and a touch of idealized Americana—made the ads instantly recognizable and emotionally resonant. The campaign leaned heavily into family values and morning convenience, targeting the growing middle class with themes of health, happiness, and domestic ease.
The campaign was a hit. It helped establish Kellogg’s as a household name and contributed to the company’s early dominance in the breakfast cereal market. Leyendecker’s work not only boosted sales but also helped define the visual language of early 20th-century advertising. His illustrations were so beloved that they were reused and referenced for years afterward.
[Sources: “1915 Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Magazine Ad” at peoplesgdarchive.org/item/16015/1915-kellogg-s-corn-flake...
and “J.C. Leyendecker in the Golden Age of Illustration” at the Huntsville Museum of Art (2008) at tfaoi.org/aa/8aa/8aa8.htm ]
more items from my collection are here:
more items from my collection are here:
more items from my collection are here:
Telling you guys about my "Stage Scenery and Props" set reminded me that I never uploaded this year's stage props I made. These were made for a production of "Cats". The director wanted huge garbage pieces, so I made a couple.
Sorry so many, I just wanted to get these online and into the set while I was thinking of it!
Pneumatics used to make pop-up toys by Year 3 as part of the Telling into Writing, Treasure Island work
Created for a swap-bot swap in the cut+paste group.
Marge was afraid she had taken a wrong turn in Jersey, but kept smiling so as not to alarm the children.