Advertising from: 1900 – 1930

Coca-Cola syrup container

Coca-Cola syrup container from 1906, it was a few years after cocaine was removed from the formula, which was around 1903.

Coca-Cola syrup container 1906

Drug store with Coca-Cola signs 1920

Nice old photo of drug store with Coca-Cola signs from 1920

Rare 1916 Coca-Cola cardboard advertising sign with swastika motif

Drink a bottle of Coca-Cola and be lucky

Coca-Cola used the swastika again in 1925 when it introduced a watch fob in that design. The swastika was widely used as a symbol of good luck or good fortune prior to the Second World War.

Coca-Cola is pre-eminently the drink of quality 1906

This girl is very sexy and seems to be offering something else not the glasses of Coca-Cola. But the most interesting is the background with the gas bubbles or condensation on the outside of a glass. It is the first in a series where the bubbles of gas form the background for decades.

Coca-Cola is pre-eminently the drink of quality 1906

Coca-Cola magazine ads from 1925

Summertime goodness for winter thirst.

Refreshment time and sociability of thirst - Such is the charm of purity at home.

6,000,000 a day. In fact, Coca-Cola has an average sale of more than six million drinks for every day in the year. I has the charm of purity.

Hot Coca-Cola spiced 1907

Why have a dull soda season? Coca-Cola, like tea and coffee, is a year around drink. Hold your summer trade by serving Coca-Cola both hot and cold through the winter season.

Hot Coca-Cola spiced ad 1907

A cold bottle of delicious refreshing Coca-Cola 1905

Newspaper coke ad from 1905

A cold bottle of delicious refreshing Coca-Cola, newspaper ad 1905

Coca-Cola pepsin gum magazine ad 1904-1905

In 1904 the company’s headquarters in Atlanta began selling Coca-Cola pepsin gum.

Coca-Cola pepsin gum ads 1904-1905

Coca-Cola managazine ads 1905

After exercise drink coca-cola 1905

Coca-Cola delicious refreshing at soda founts 1905

It satisfies the thirsty and helps the weary 1905

Coca-Cola swastika

In 1925 Coca Cola made a lucky watch fob in the shape of a swastika with the slogan, “Drink Coca Cola five cents in bottles.” At that time, the Swastika was still a symbol of ‘Good Luck’. The watch fob is approximately 4cm x 4cm in size and is made of brass.

Coca Cola swastika