A detail from a department store ad from The Washington Post in the 1930s.The ads touted the X-ray machines used to fit shoes for children. Such machines were common until the 1950s. (The Washington ...
Have you heard about these newfangled X-ray machines? We should put ’em in everything! We should literally use them to X-ray people’s feet to fit them for shoes. It sounds like a retro-parody cartoon, ...