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Virgin Leaf Tobacco – FDR Drive, Harlem NYC

Nov 6th, 2007
by fadingad.

Virgin Leaf Tobacco - Harlem NYC

Virgin Leaf Tobacco - FDR Drive, Harlem NYC
© Frank H. Jump 2001

Posted in: Genealogy, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Harlem, NYC, Photography, Propaganda, Tobaccoania.

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  1. Joan Tilghman says:
    June 22, 2009 at 9:42 pm

    I can’t believe the pictures. D.H. McAlpin was my great grandfather. I am writing our family history and can’t believe that I found these pictures

  2. Richard Cryan says:
    December 21, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    Joan,

    I started the wikipedia article on DH McAlpin and would love to collaborate with you regarding family history. DHM was my ggg grandfather, descended through Gen EA McAlpin

    Best
    Dick Cryan

  3. fadingad says:
    December 21, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    Please keep us all posted here at the Fading Ad Blog! Would love to get a link to your Wiki-article Richard, and Joan- send us pics and captions if you can. Best, Frank

  4. Richard Cryan says:
    December 22, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    Here’s the link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hunter_McAlpin

    Includes some information on the McAlpin Tobacco Company too.

  5. Joan Tilghman says:
    December 24, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    Dear Dick,
    I guess we are cousins. You have done an amazing job with your research. I don’t have much to add but a few trivial notes on the McAlpin Hotel and his family, also how he bought land on 90th St. and built three houses for three of his sons. After Xmas I will get to work. Where are you living. I am in Hobe Sound FL.

  6. Richard Cryan says:
    December 24, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    Joan, I live in Boston. The portrait of David Hunter is hanging in my house. Yes, we are cousins – 2nd cousins twice removed to be exact. Drop me an email at cryanrm@yahoo.com and we can share further, I have an extensive family tree online which you can access.

    Have a great Christmas!

    Dick