Frog View
19 10 2007
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Categories : Photography, Science Education, Space, Technology
Pintchik Paints - Rediscovering Jamaica, Jamaica Queens
19 10 2007
© Frank H. Jump
Pintchik Paints and Mary’s Idle Hour Pizza. Check out Kevin Walsh’s Forgotten-NY Queens Fading Ads.
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Categories : Art, Photography, Queens, Technology, Urban Archaeology, Visual Anthropology, Zapf dingbats & other fonts
Get Shorpy - The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
19 10 2007
My buddy Julian Seery Gude, great great grandson of advertising pioneer OJ Gude, turned me on to this blog. Great vintage photos. Above are Vincenzo, 15 years old, and brother Angelo, 11 years old, baking bread for their father at 174 Salem Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. February 1, 1917
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Categories : Art, Boston, Flour & Bread, OJ Gude, Photography, Vintage Photography, Visual Anthropology
Fletcher’s Castoria - Rediscovering Jamaica… Jamaica, Queens
19 10 2007
© Frank H. Jump
Archer Avenue off Sutphin Blvd. Fletcher’s Castoria is one of the most prolific and lasting fading ads in the NYC area. Originally formulated as a childrens’ laxative by the Centaur Company, the slogans often read - “Fletcher’s Castoria - Made Especially for Children.”
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Categories : Art, Fletcher's Castoria, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Photography, Propaganda, Queens, Urban Archaeology
