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Mail Pouch sign barn painter at work

September 24, 2019 Advertising industry in Appalachia / Tobacco industry / West Virginia

We called ourselves barn massagers, walldogs or barn lizards

The Bloch brothers’ barn-painting advertising helped to make their “West Virginia coleslaw” one of America’s most recognized 20th century brands.

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Nancy Green as Aunt Jemima

March 1, 2017 Advertising industry in Appalachia / Appalachian celebrities / Black Appalachia / Kentucky

Nancy Green, the first ‘Aunt Jemima’

Nancy Green, of Mt Sterling, KY, became the first person to portray the Aunt Jemima pancake character in 1893.

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