Advertising Sign Collection

Picture series Riddle, Letter Riddle, Litfass Column Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a Liebig collector's picture from the 19th century, exact date unknown

Historical photo, advertising signs for the circus, ca. 1920

Germany, Berlin, 25.09.1991, former Stasi building in Hohenschoenhausen, watchtower, former Stasi prison Hohenschoenhausen, advertising signs of various new companies, Europe

Germany, Berlin, 25.09.1991, former Stasi building in Hohenschoenhausen, watchtower, former Stasi prison Hohenschoenhausen, advertising signs of various new companies, Europe

Germany, Berlin, 25.09.1991, former Stasi building in Hohenschoenhausen, watchtower, former Stasi prison Hohenschoenhausen, advertising signs of various new companies, Europe

Large ticket hall with illuminated sign Commerzbank, Kodacolor Gold film from Kodak, Stuttgart main station, mid-1980s, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Foto-Krueger advertising, 1920s, exact location unknown, Germany, Europe

Picture series Riddle, Letter Riddle, Litfass Column Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a Liebig collector's picture from the 19th century, exact date unknown

Picture series Riddle, Letter Riddle, Litfass Column Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a Liebig collector's picture from the 19th century, exact date unknown

Picture series Riddle, Letter Riddle, Litfass Column Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a Liebig collector's picture from the 19th century, exact date unknown

Picture series Riddle, Letter Riddle, Litfass Column Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a Liebig collector's picture from the 19th century, exact date unknown

Picture series Riddle, Letter Riddle, Litfass Column Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a Liebig collector's picture from the 19th century, exact date unknown

Street vending in the Elbstrasse, street scene, shop, detail, vendor, baskets, men, woman, lantern, advertising signs, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany, historical illustration 1880, Europe

Opened, old songbook as advertising sign of a bookshop, Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

Shop window of a drugstore, underwear for a good figure, fashion, ca. 1940, exact location unknown, Germany, Europe

Vendor of baseballs, between 50s and 60s, exact location unknown, France, Europe

Advertising posters attached to advertising pillar ca. 1945, 1955, Freiburg, Germany, Europe

People gazing at car in the air, Mexico City, Mexico, Central America

New York City views, (1941?). Creator: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc
New York City views, (1941?)

South Tyrol - Italy in 1960s - advertising sign in Bolzano, South Tyrol. Waschmittelreklame für Sesa in Bozen, Südtirol. Image date circa 1963. Photo Erich Andres

Unterwegs in Port-au-Prince
Werbeschild für die Weltausstellung in Montréal am Champs de Mars, 1967. Advertising sign for the World's Fair in Montréal at Champs de Mars, 1967

Unterwegs in Port-au-Prince
Werbeschild für die Weltausstellung in Montréal am Champs de Mars, 1967. Advertising sign for the World's Fair in Montréal at Champs de Mars, 1967

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong bei Nacht, 1980er Jahre. Hongkong at night, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong bei Nacht, 1980er Jahre. Hongkong at night, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong bei Nacht, 1980er Jahre. Hongkong at night, 1980s

Hongkong bei Nacht, 1980er Jahre. Hongkong at night, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong bei Nacht, 1980er Jahre. Hongkong at night, 1980s

Hongkong
Straßen in Hongkong, 1980er Jahre. Streets in Hongkong, 1980s

Hongkong bei Nacht, 1980er Jahre. Hongkong at night, 1980s

Hongkong bei Nacht, 1980er Jahre. Hongkong at night, 1980s

Hongkong bei Nacht, 1980er Jahre. Hongkong at night, 1980s

Hongkong bei Nacht, 1980er Jahre. Hongkong at night, 1980s

Standard Oil Horse Drawn Wagon On Old St
One of Standard Oil Company's (later Amoco Corporation) first tank wagons

Policeman Arresting a Hobo on Mulberry Street
1897-New York, NY-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Arrest of a hobo at Mulberry Bend

Junction of Chatham and Centre Street, New York

Laundress and Fortune Teller
(Original Caption) 1898-Nome, AK: Klondike Gold Rush Dawson Laundry. BPA2# 2215

Hand Shaped Sign Advertising for a Midwife
(Original Caption) Finger pointing sign--Advertisement for midwife. BPA 2 #28

View of State and Whitehall Streets in Lower Manhattan

Visitors at Coney Island in New York
(Original Caption) Coney Island Broadway with shops and other facilities

Ice Vendor Weighing Ice Block
An ice deliveryman weighs a large chunk of ice for school children at Birney Public School

Auto Parts Store and Garage
(Original Caption) Auto parts store and garage in Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph by Walker Evans. Undated

Early Heinz Wagon with Advertising
(Original Caption) An early Heinz wagon reflects the interest of the company's founder, H. J. Heinz, in advertising

Lithograph Depicting Pickpockets
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

"Greatest Show on Earth" Poster Advertising P.T. Barnum's Circus
POSTER ADVERTISING P.T. BARNUM'S CIRCUS: "GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH", JULY 1944

A Physician's Pictorial Advertising Sign Used in the 1600s
Various medical procedures are depicted to advertise services available to patients in the first pictorial advertising sign used by an English physician in the early 1600s

Barnum's Museum by Thomas Benecke
During winter in New York, a sleighing party crowds the street in front of Barnum's Museum

Ty Cobb Sliding Into Third Base
(Original Caption) Baseball. A stationary action shot of Ty Cobb sliding. Note the flapping long sleeves and the turned up collar of the old time uniform

A Watchmaker's Sign
(Original Caption) Close-up of a Watchmaker's sign in the shape of a pocketwatch. Undated photograph. BPA2#5015

First Sign Advertising Kerosene
(Original Caption) The first sign by John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'s company advertising kerosene by Standard Oil

War News from Mexico by Richard Caton Woodville
(Original Caption) War news from Mexico, painting by Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1856)

Metropole Hotel with Advertisements
The Metropole Hotel is covered in advertising signboards, 1909

F.W.Woolworth Company Store in Montpelier
(Original Caption) Montpelier, Vermont: A front view of a F.W. Woolworth 5 and 10 cent store. Ca. 1910

Street Car on Pennsylvania Avenue
A streetcar on Pennsylvania Avenue near Eight Street. The dome of the U.S. Capitol is seen at the end of the street

Dining Car on Downtown City Loft
(Original Caption) Dining car or lunch wagon on downtown New York City loft, photograph taken in 1920

Lafayette Theatre In Harlem
(Original Caption) 1927-New York: Harlem. 7th Avenue between 131st and 132nd Streets, Lafayette Theatre, exterior view

Chinatown in New York City
(Original Caption) 1927-New York: General view of Pell and Mott Streets, Chinatown

Dreamland Circus Side Show
1927-Brooklyn, NY-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Coney Island, Dreamland Circus Show. As the darkness of night occurs the Coney Island Dreamland Side Show lights up the street

Customers Crowding Outside Clarke Brothers Bank
1929-New York, NY: Run on Clark Brothers Bank at Nassau and Clark Streets

New York's New Tammany Hall
The new Tammany Hall on East 17th Street, home of New York's Democratic Party, upon its completion in 1929

Men Waiting Outside Al Capone Soup Kitchen
Notorious gangster Al Capone attempts to help unemployed men with his soup kitchen "Big Al's Kitchen for the Needy." The kitchen provides three meals a day consisting of soup with meat

Children Forming New Deal Emblem
Several thousand San Francisco schoolchildren mass together to form the patriotic "Blue Eagle" of the National Recovery Administration

Jack Pearl Toasting the End of Prohibition
Popular radio performers Jack Pearl and Cliff Hall perform in front of the Michel brewery in Brooklyn

Couple Kissing in Car near Regulatory Sign
(Original Caption) 6/7/1933-Delaware- Lewis B. Simon is either a sentimentalist or an excellent business man

"Living Blue Eagle" Formed by School Children
A living "Blue Eagle" formed by several thousand school children of San Francisco

Women Posing with Wine Bottle Sign
Three women pose with a sign of a giant bottle of white wine, which greets visitors upon their arrival to the winery

Tailor Jacob Meged Standing in Store Window
(Original Caption) The NRA is O.K. with Jacob Maged, tailor, now. He's pictured putting up the Blue Eagle after Judge Robert V. Kinkead of Jersey City, N.J

Times Square
(Original Caption) New York, NY-New York City: Times Square. Photograph, ca. 1935

General Store in Sprott, Alabama
Locals gather on the porch of the Southern Cross Road Grocery Store which serves also as gasoline station and post office for the town of Sprott, Alabama. | Location: Sprott, Alabama, USA

Sandwich Man on Stilts
A man on stilts wears a sign advertising sandwiches while walking through the crowd on Nassau Street in Manhattan

Crowd Outside Nathan's
An evening crowd floods Nathan's on 6th Street at Coney Island. Earlier in the day, the mercury mounted to a new all time high, 102.3 degrees

Guides Offering Movie Star Home Tours
(Original Caption) 9/22/1936-Beverly Hills, California-Guides who drive visitors through Beverly Hills on a tour taking in the homes of movie stars. Extreme left: Norman Siegel

Murphy Myers Riverview Inn
(Original Caption) This is Murphy Myers Riverview Inn which is the scene of Gayety 23 1/2 hours a day. The other thirty minutes is allotted to Rev. Bremner's revival service

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EDITORS COMMENTS

Step back in time and immerse yourself in the vibrant world of vintage advertising signs. From the colorful Horse Super Cigarettes sign, showcasing the wonders of color printing in 1935, to the captivating lithograph promoting the Moulin Rouge and its mesmerizing Cancan dancers from 1890. These signs transport us to a bygone era filled with excitement and allure. Traveling to Cassis, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, we stumble upon an old signage for a bakery and pastry shop. The aroma of freshly baked goods fills the air as locals eagerly gather around this charming establishment. In sunny Encinitas, California, a newly constructed single-family home proudly stands with a "sold" sign adorning its entrance. A symbol of dreams fulfilled and new beginnings embarked upon. The tantalizing poster advertising Picon's caramel flavored drink beckons us with promises of indulgence and delight. Its artistic design captures our attention while igniting our taste buds. Transported to 1922 Italy through Maccheroni Pianigiani's enchanting poster, we are enticed by visions of delicious pasta dishes that make our mouths water. Birra Venezia's bold poster invites us into a world where beer flows freely and good times abound. It tempts us to raise a glass in celebration alongside friends old and new. A lithograph from 1896 encourages us to ride a Stearns bicycle for contentment on life's journey. The open road awaits as we embrace freedom on two wheels. Delving further into history, we encounter "The Road Rights of Wheelmen" lithograph from 1895 - reminding society about cyclists' rights during an era when bicycles were at their peak popularity. An intriguing corset advertisement from 1905 showcases how fashion has evolved over time while highlighting women's desire for elegance and gracefulness throughout different eras.