At Easter time food is very important. Whether it is fun Easter desserts or a yummy ham, someone is always eating something.

Today’s post features all different kinds of vintage Easter advertising from 1940s to the 1960s for all kinds of food (mostly desserts) to maybe inspire you for your own Easter feast.

Let the fun begin!

FURTHER READING: Vintage Easter Advertising 1930s-1950s (various ads)

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Vintage Easter Advertising

Easter Food 1940’s – 1960’s

1951 Springtime ad for Jell-O Puddings & Pie Fillings. Featuring cool dessert recipes for “Easter Sunday Pie”, “Chocolate Party Pudding” & “Butterscotch Jewel Parfait”. YUM!

1950s Vintage Ad /1950s Easter Advertising from 1951 for Jello Puddings and Pie Fillings featuring a recipe for an Easter Sunday Pie. 1950s Dessert Idea.

Source: Pinterest

Another Jell-O ad from 1946. Featuring an Easter Egg Pudding.

Did you know that Jell-O was scarce during WW2? I did not but the rationing of sugar played a part as the advertisement explains. Even after the end of WW2, Jell-O was still waiting for it to replenish.

1940s vintage Easter Advertising: 1946 Easter Egg Pudding dessert idea.

Source: eBay

So many Easter Ham advertisements out there. I should do a blog post on just ham!

1940s Easter Tradition ad for Swift’s Premium Ham as seen in a 1944 copy of American Home. Making the most of the holiday during wartimes.

Source: Pinterest

“Happier Easter – with America’s Luxury Ham!”. 1949 Armour Ham advertisement.

Source: eBay

“Easy Easter Fun Fare…Swift’s Preminum Ham”. Vintage 1953 Easter Swift’s Premium Ham ad.

1950s Vintage Easter Advertising: 1953 Easter Swift’s Premium Ham Ad

Source: Pinterest

Are you in need of an Easter menu to go with your ham? Then look no further then this 1957 French’s Mustard advertisement.

The Easter Menu:

Relish Tray
Baked Ham with a French’s Mustard Glaze
New Potatoes in their jackets
Sliced Green Beans with Sauteed Almonds
Green Salad
Rhubarb Sherbet with fresh Strawberries
Coffee

1950s vintage easter advertising for french's mustard for your Easter ham featuring an Easter Menu as well

Source: eBay

1951 ‘Duff’s Gingerbread Mix’ vintage ad. “Your youngster will love these cute Easter bunnies and eggs made with my Duff’s Gingerbrea Mix!”.

1950s Vintage Easter Advertisment: 1951 ‘Duff’s Gingerbread Mix’ featuring Easter goodies you can make with Gingerbread mix.

Source: Pinterest

1949 Vintage Easter Advertisement for Dexo sold at A & P featuring a vintage recipe for an Easter Surprise Cake.

FURTHER READING: Vintage Cake Ideas As Seen Thru 1920s-1950s Ads

1940s Vintage Easter Advertisement for Dexo sold at A & P featuring a vintage recipe for an Easter Surprise Cake. ad is from 1949

Source: eBay

You can’t have coloured eggs without food colouring. 1960s ad for McCormick-Schilling Food Colors dye & Vanilla flavor for cakes & cookies.

“Make Easter Gayer, Brighter this Popular, Colorful Way!

1960s Easter Advertising: You can't have coloured eggs without food colouring. 1960s ad for McCormick-Schilling Food Colors dye & Vanilla flavor for cakes & cookies.

Source: Flickr

What would Easter be without Chocolate & Candy? 1957 Brach’s Easter candy ad.

1950s Vintage Easter Advertising: 1957 Brach's Easter Candy Ad

Source: Pinterest

1954 Milky Way Chocolate Easter ad. “Even Easter Eggs want to eat a Milky Way”.

1950s vintage Easter Advertising for Milky Way Chocolate bars featuring Easter Eggs enjoying the chocolate bar

Source: Reddit

What should you do with those Easter Eggs after you cook them and colour them? Why not make a stuffed Eggs & Rice Creole with ‘Snider’s Old Fashioned Chili Sauce’? 1944 Vintage Ad.

1940s Vintage Easter Advertising - What should you do with those Easter Eggs after you cook them and colour them? Make a stuffed Eggs & Rice Creole with 'Snider's Old Fashioned Chili Sauce'. 1944 Vintage Ad featuring a vintage dinner recipe.

Source: eBay

Thank you for taking a look at these fun vintage Easter food ads. If I had an ounce of baking ability in me, I would try to make one of the fun recipes above. But I don’t so I will leave that to my talented readers. Good Luck and have fun!

Please share in the comments section anything you wish to share about today’s post. I love hearing from my readers!

FURTHER READING:

Vintage Easter 1920s-1960s (Archived blog posts)
Vintage Food Posts

Thanks for dropping by!

Liz

Over the years I have done several Easter blog posts but never one completely dedicated to Vintage Easter images. Since Easter is around just the corner and I have another themed post lined up for the week of, let’s do these Vintage Photos today!

Let’s take a look at our stylish & cute photos.

1950s vintage photo of a 1950s Window Display for Easter featuring Easter dresses for girls from Hess's Department Store, Allentown, PA

Source: Pinterest – 1950s vintage photo of a 1950s Window Display from Hess’s Department Store, Allentown, PA

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Vintage Easter Images

1920’s – 1960’s

A fashionable group in Atlantic City on Easter Sunday, April 17th, 1949. “Claire, Janet & Me”.

Animal print coats were clearly all the rage with these group of ladies (two of them at least). Stunning corsages as well.

Source: Etsy – LightSilverAndPaper

Here are the ladies again but they managed to find two men to walk them down the boardwalk for their own “Easter Parade”. “Janet, Moe, Claire, John & Me. April 17th, 1949”.

1940s Vintage Photo / 1940s Fashion: A fashionable group in Atlantic City on Easter Sunday, April 17th, 1949.

Source: Etsy – LightSilverAndPaper

Okay one more of this group! We found a third handsome man to join the gang! Our newest guy’s name is “Lloyd”.

1940s Vintage Photo / 1940s Fashion: A fashionable group of women and men in Atlantic City on Easter Sunday, April 17th, 1949.

Source: Etsy – LightSilverAndPaper

Incredibly stylish Church goers on Easter Sunday in Chicago in the 1940s. Look at those hats?!

1940s vintage photo of Churchgoers on Easter Sunday in Chicago dressed in 1940s fashions. Stylish group of Black Men & Black Women

Source: Etsy – OakwoodView

The next photo is from an Easter post I did on “1920’s Photos of Toronto’s Easter Parade“, but is so amazing that I wanted to make sure you did not miss it.

Take a look at these fantastically dressed 1920’s women in their version of a tuxedo complete with top hats. The details are incredible. From their bobbed hair, majorette boots and long scarfs coming from their hands (so many questions) it’s all outstanding!

1920s photo of the Sunnyside Easter Parade in Toronto featuring two women dressed in Tuxedos

1950s vintage photo of a young woman filling Easter baskets on her kitchen table.

Source: Etsy – iloveyoumorephotos

Parents and their need to scare their children at young ages for photos. HA! 1960s photo of a young boy posing for a photo with a pink stuffed easter bunny while his dad in a flannel jacket holds up the toy.

1960s photo of a young boy posing for a photo with a pink stuffed easter bunny while his dad ina flannel jacket holds up the toy

Source: Etsy – iloveyoumorephotos

Dressed in their Easter best…Mary Elizabeth and William Lewis holding Easter baskets in this Charles “Teenie” Harris 1940s photography. Aren’t they so cute??!

1940s vintage photo of a young Black boy and young Black girl in their Easter clothes holding easter baskets posing for a photo by Charles Teenie Harris 1940-1945.

Source: National Museum of African American History & Culture-Smithsonian

1940’s photo of a little girl holding a stuffed animal posing with mom and aunt maybe (or all sisters?)? I’m loving the 1940’s skirt suits on our ladies featured in the image.

1940s vintage photo of Easter 1945 featuring two women in 1940's skirt suits holding a giant easter bunny stuffed animal and a little girl holding a stuffed toy. Super 1940s Hairstyles.

Source: Etsy – AlaskaVintage

April 1954…Marlene & John celebrate Easter together with an Easter lily and a stuffed bunny. How adorable!

1950s vintage photo of a 1950s couple celebrating Easter with a easter lily and stuffed easter bunny in the photo.

Source: eBay

Easter Parade 1952.

Miss Jean Leonard, Air Force Sergeant Harry Logan, and Mrs. Harry Logan celebrate Easter in style as they celebrate in Harlem, New York. For the special occasion, the sergeant made sure to have his uniform pressed and to wear his medals (Source).