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May, 2010:

Papine (Morphine Preparation) Label & Vintage Bottle – Battle & Company, St Louis, MO

© Frank H. Jump

Honesdale, PA - © Frank H. Jump

Eclectic Medical Journal, Volume 46 - Google Books

Montreal Medical Journal, Vol. 13 - Google Books

California State Journal - PDF

Southern California Practitioner - Google Books

Internet resources:

Webb’s Clothing – Walton, NY – Vito Berretta (March 25, 1958 – July 7, 2012)

Main Street © Vito Berretta

27-year veteran of FDNY dies at 54
Lt. Vito Berretta known as extreme athlete

BY JOE KEMP / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012, 2:00 AM

Greyhound Terminal – Binghamton, NY – Vito Berretta (March 25, 1958 – July 7, 2012)

Vito Berretta

© Vito Berretta

27-year veteran of FDNY dies at 54
Lt. Vito Berretta known as extreme athlete

BY JOE KEMP / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012, 2:00 AM

UW Tacoma work erases historic icon – Peter Callaghan – The News Tribune

© Vincenzo Aiosa

The Student Prince loved his beer.

And beer lovers in Tacoma loved the Student Prince.

I say loved – past tense – because the Student Prince is dead. The last large image of the iconic advertising symbol of local brew Alt Heidelberg was washed away from the side of the University of Washington Tacoma’s Joy Building during renovation.

“We’re deeply saddened and dismayed and heartsick over this,” said UWT spokesman Mike Wark. He said the UWT strives to preserve the historic painted signs it inherited but was told by a subcontractor that the condition of this one was too fragile to withstand brick cleaning and tuck pointing.

Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/05/27/1202505/uw-tacoma-work-erases-historic.html#ixzz0pAzk2tKK

I wrote the piece today about the destruction of the alt Heidelberg ghostsign in Tacoma. I’m now wrestling with people who say it isn’t that big a deal because it can just be repainted. I’m trying to explain why that just isn’t the same (and would be a bad idea to try). Can you give me some help? What is the beauty of ghost signs that demands that they be original, that they be apparitions that we discover? As bad as this mistake is, I think it would be made worse by some attempt to repaint the Student Prince.

Thanks. Enjoy your page.
Peter Callaghan
The News Tribune
Tacoma, WA

Previously posted:
  • Alt Heidelberg – Columbia Brewing Co – Tacoma, WAFading Ad Blog

Joseph Cory Warehouses, Inc. – Jersey City, NJ

© Frank H. Jump

Court House Prescriptions – Jersey City, NJ

© Frank H. Jump

Shields Farr – Printing & Engraving – Nashville, TN

© Frank H. Jump

Real Estate Telephone Exchange – Clarendon 8 – East Flatbush, Brooklyn

Utica Avenue © Vincenzo Aiosa

Dannenhoffer's Opalescent – Shaffer's Glass Works

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

Elsewhere on the Internet:

Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry - Google Books

The Dannenhoffer Brothers

JL Dannenhoffer - Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry - Google Books

NL Dannenhoffer - Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry - Google Books

NY Times - May 21, 1905

NY Times - May 21, 1905 (PDF)

NY Times - May 21, 1905 (PDF)

Wyckoff Paints Wallpaper Neon – Ridgewood, Queens

Wyckoff & Himrod - Ridgewood, Queens © Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa