Vintage Lingerie Catalogue and Commercial Ads Scans - Page 108

VidCapGuy · August 3rd, 2011, 02:16 PM

It is great to see a lot of new, high-quality catalog scans posted here in the past few months!

BTW - I have the entire ZuhlCity.com collection to upload if anyone is interested. For those of you not familiar with his work, Zuhl (whatever his real name was) created and for several years regularly expanded a web site consisting of high-quality catalog lingerie scans from every major North American retailer from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s! (Aldens/Bellas-Hass/Etons/JC Pennys/Sears/Simpsons Sears/Spiegel/Montgomery Wards.) Virtually every significant issue (fall/winter/spring/summer) for every year of this time span is covered. I have never see another site with anywhere near the amount of content they had. Total content I downloaded before the site closed was 3.38 GB: 204 folders (each folder = one issue's lingerie and/or swimsuit section) for a total of 7,067 ~ 1200x1600 HQ images. IMHO Zuhl deserves top ranking and highest praises in the vintage lingerie catalog scan Hall Of Fame!

I have seen small sampling of images covered in the Zuhl City Collection in prior postings here, but maybe only a few percent of the total content and then often in a smaller resolution and/or lower quality.

While it would be easiest to zip these folders and post them at RapidShare or something like it, many people don't have or want to pay for access to such (myself included) and would rather browse thumbnails here and only download the images they prefer... If I get enough requests here to do so, I'll begin this gigantic task shortly, as my spare time allows, starting alphabetically (Aldens) in the early 60s -- and moving up from there...

Let me know what you guys think!

monkey's uncle · August 3rd, 2011, 11:21 PM

This is my first attempt to post some scans of mine so hopefully this works. These are from 1979 JCP catalog. If you guys like these I can post some more. Let me know if the scans are too big. Is anyone interested in the black and white pics. I have several more catalogs from the 70s and 80s that I can scan when I get time.

legman 1970 · August 4th, 2011, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by monkey's uncle

This is my first attempt to post some scans of mine so hopefully this works. These are from 1979 JCP catalog. If you guys like these I can post some more. Let me know if the scans are too big. Is anyone interested in the black and white pics. I have several more catalogs from the 70s and 80s that I can scan when I get time.

yes thank you! if you have scans or can scan the pantyhose and stocking section that would be great

if you have the sears and wards catalogs that would be great to. and again thanks.

**blower** · August 4th, 2011, 04:15 AM

**blower** · August 4th, 2011, 04:25 AM

corsair · August 4th, 2011, 03:37 PM

IMHO Zuhl deserves top ranking and highest praises in the vintage lingerie catalog scan Hall Of Fame!

Total agreement with you on this, VidCapGuy. Zuhl had an awesome pool of classic lingerie / swimsuit ads to dip into.

I can appreciate that it will be a helluva slog to upload several GB of files, but take heart, my friend, there will be innumerable thanks and praise heaped at your VEF doorstep!

My libido anxiously awaits your first offering...

vintage badger · August 5th, 2011, 03:08 AM

Guys -- love the scans but when you scan catalogs, books or magazines, my experience says that you should turn on the 'descreen' filter. They'll come out a lot better--at least they do for me.

VidCapGuy · August 5th, 2011, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by jluo

Fire away, VidCapGuy. I'd like to see all the Macy's scans from the 1980s.

Sorry, Zuhl City didn't have any Macy ads... sure wish they did. http://www.bilkoscans.wanadoo.co.uk/ used to have some newer Macys but they closed too.

tachyglossis · August 5th, 2011, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by VidCapGuy

It is great to see a lot of new, high-quality catalog scans posted here in the past few months!

BTW - I have the entire ZuhlCity.com collection to upload if anyone is interested. For those of you not familiar with his work, Zuhl (whatever his real name was) created and for several years regularly expanded a web site consisting of high-quality catalog lingerie scans from every major North American retailer from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s! (Aldens/Bellas-Hass/Etons/JC Pennys/Sears/Simpsons Sears/Spiegel/Montgomery Wards.) Virtually every significant issue (fall/winter/spring/summer) for every year of this time span is covered. I have never see another site with anywhere near the amount of content they had. Total content I downloaded before the site closed was 3.38 GB: 204 folders (each folder = one issue's lingerie and/or swimsuit section) for a total of 7,067 ~ 1200x1600 HQ images. IMHO Zuhl deserves top ranking and highest praises in the vintage lingerie catalog scan Hall Of Fame!

I have seen small sampling of images covered in the Zuhl City Collection in prior postings here, but maybe only a few percent of the total content and then often in a smaller resolution and/or lower quality.

While it would be easiest to zip these folders and post them at RapidShare or something like it, many people don't have or want to pay for access to such (myself included) and would rather browse thumbnails here and only download the images they prefer... If I get enough requests here to do so, I'll begin this gigantic task shortly, as my spare time allows, starting alphabetically (Aldens) in the early 60s -- and moving up from there...

Let me know what you guys think!

Great idea; and I appreciate what an effort it would be.
I also have an almost complete series of the slip catalogue pics from the Zuhcity site (it disappeared about a year or so ago).
They were great, because they were all high quality images.
And yes; many of the pics posted on this site of ads from the 70's to 80's can be traced back to the Zuhcity scans.
I spent a bit of time separating the images out and editing them with a simple editor (irfanview), resulting in about 2000 individual images (examples to follow). I was thinking of doing a series of posts, one for each catalogue scan, with the separate images. This is also a massive task, and I was about to start when I finished my current series in the wife&girlfriend thread.

Good luck with your task; and I'll follow it up with individual pics and anything you've missed.

ps: Many of the Zuhcity scans date from the early 60's, and don't really fit this thread oof 70's to 90's scans.

tachyglossis · August 5th, 2011, 03:40 PM

Here's a few examples of the separated pics from the scans.
All the pics are not this high quality; but you can get the idea of how good the original sans were; because these extracts are a fraction of the size of the original pics.

August 3rd, 2011, 02:16 PM	#1071
VidCapGuy Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 159 Thanks: 677 Thanked 7,165 Times in 155 Posts	It is great to see a lot of new, high-quality catalog scans posted here in the past few months! BTW - I have the entire ZuhlCity.com collection to upload if anyone is interested. For those of you not familiar with his work, Zuhl (whatever his real name was) created and for several years regularly expanded a web site consisting of high-quality catalog lingerie scans from every major North American retailer from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s! (Aldens/Bellas-Hass/Etons/JC Pennys/Sears/Simpsons Sears/Spiegel/Montgomery Wards.) Virtually every significant issue (fall/winter/spring/summer) for every year of this time span is covered. I have never see another site with anywhere near the amount of content they had. Total content I downloaded before the site closed was 3.38 GB: 204 folders (each folder = one issue's lingerie and/or swimsuit section) for a total of 7,067 ~ 1200x1600 HQ images. IMHO Zuhl deserves top ranking and highest praises in the vintage lingerie catalog scan Hall Of Fame! I have seen small sampling of images covered in the Zuhl City Collection in prior postings here, but maybe only a few percent of the total content and then often in a smaller resolution and/or lower quality. While it would be easiest to zip these folders and post them at RapidShare or something like it, many people don't have or want to pay for access to such (myself included) and would rather browse thumbnails here and only download the images they prefer... If I get enough requests here to do so, I'll begin this gigantic task shortly, as my spare time allows, starting alphabetically (Aldens) in the early 60s -- and moving up from there... Let me know what you guys think! __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Still living in the swinging 60's and grooving 70's !!! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

August 3rd, 2011, 11:21 PM	#1072
monkey's uncle Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 13 Thanks: 1,046 Thanked 838 Times in 13 Posts	1979 catalog scans This is my first attempt to post some scans of mine so hopefully this works. These are from 1979 JCP catalog. If you guys like these I can post some more. Let me know if the scans are too big. Is anyone interested in the black and white pics. I have several more catalogs from the 70s and 80s that I can scan when I get time.

August 4th, 2011, 04:15 AM	#1074
blower Vintage Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Big Island-Australia Posts: 1,298 Thanks: 21,411 Thanked 44,460 Times in 1,288 Posts	Some more from 'A century of lingerie'

August 4th, 2011, 04:25 AM	#1075
blower Vintage Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Big Island-Australia Posts: 1,298 Thanks: 21,411 Thanked 44,460 Times in 1,288 Posts	Century of lingerie..continued. Last edited by svga; August 14th, 2011 at 11:08 AM.. Reason: layout

August 4th, 2011, 03:37 PM	#1076
corsair Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Home of the U of F Gators! Posts: 56 Thanks: 1,842 Thanked 791 Times in 56 Posts	IMHO Zuhl deserves top ranking and highest praises in the vintage lingerie catalog scan Hall Of Fame! Total agreement with you on this, VidCapGuy. Zuhl had an awesome pool of classic lingerie / swimsuit ads to dip into. I can appreciate that it will be a helluva slog to upload several GB of files, but take heart, my friend, there will be innumerable thanks and praise heaped at your VEF doorstep! My libido anxiously awaits your first offering... __________________ Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your children...

August 5th, 2011, 03:08 AM	#1077
vintage badger Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 4 Thanks: 2,957 Thanked 24 Times in 3 Posts	Guys -- love the scans but when you scan catalogs, books or magazines, my experience says that you should turn on the 'descreen' filter. They'll come out a lot better--at least they do for me.

August 5th, 2011, 03:40 PM	#1080
tachyglossis Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 212 Thanks: 3,116 Thanked 10,187 Times in 236 Posts	Zuhcity scans Here's a few examples of the separated pics from the scans. All the pics are not this high quality; but you can get the idea of how good the original sans were; because these extracts are a fraction of the size of the original pics.