Vintage Mid-1950s Barqs Root Beer Franchise Prospectus 🥤 Smooth Sailing for the Bottler vanity_collectible_decor but to retouch photographs

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We date it 1910s on that basis

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The design is a small museum in itself: an arched banner reading "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" crowns a richly detailed steam-era vignette of a locomotive pulling into a rail yard

Vintage Mid-1950s Barqs Root Beer Franchise Prospectus 🥤 Smooth Sailing for the Bottler vanity_collectible_decor but to retouch photographsA Business Document, Not a Consumer Ad and Not a "Pamphlet" This is an original mid 1950s franchise prospectus from Barq's, Incorporated of Biloxi, Mississippi, titled "Smooth Sailing for the Bottler." It is worth being precise about what kind of object this actually is: this is a fold out business to business sales brochure aimed at recruiting new bottlers into the Barq's franchise system not a consumer advertisement, not a pamphlet handed out at a