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Newspaper advertisement celebrating 50 years of Sainsbury's featuring illustrations of a cherub supporting the first small shop in Holborn which the House of Sainsbury opened in 1869 and a female figure wearing a crown with 'Purity' written it holding up the contemporary Stamford House head office. The advertisement's copy includes the slogans: "1869 - 1919 Fifty Years' Record", "Sainsbury's The Leading Provision House" and "Buy your Provisions at the local branch of Sainsbury's".