© Frank H. Jump
Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms
Uptown Correspondent – Iman R. Abdulfattah – Hotel Harmony – Cathedral Pkwy – UWS, NYC
© Iman R. Abdulfattah
Hotel Harmony – Where Living Is A Pleasure [Single?] & Double Rooms Permanent Transient
The Manhattan telephone directory indicates that the building became the Hotel Harmony in 1935. The new owners apparently named the hotel after the wealthy real estate developer, William E. Harmon. The “late William E. Harmon” was mentioned in 1929 as one of the donors who contributed to the original funding for the Explorers’ Club. – Walter Grutchfield
One of the many white Americans who expressed his interest in the artistic achievements of black Americans during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s, was Caucasion real estate developer, William E. Harmon (1862-1928). In 1922 he established the Harmon Foundation in New York City to recognize African American achievements, not only in the fine arts but also in business, education, farming, literature, music, race relations, religious service and science.
In 1944 the Harmon Foundation, then under the direction of Mary Beattie Brady, organized an exhibition “Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin,” with the express goal of reversing racial intolerance, ignorance and bigotry by illustrating the accomplishments of contemporary African Americans. Including twenty-three portraits created by both a black and a white artist–Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948) and Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888-1964)–the exhibition premiered at the Smithsonian Institution on May 2 and then travelled around the United States for the next ten years. Other portraits were added to the tour during that time. – National Portrait Gallery – Smithsonian Institute
CLICK FOR LINK OF ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE HARMON FOUNDATION
Also on Walter Grutchfield‘s phenomenal website!
E.R. Butterworth & Sons – Undertakers – Seattle, WA
Taken from Public Market Promenade on August 2, 2009 © Frank H. Jump
Edgar Ray Butterworth (March 3, 1847 – January 1, 1921) was an American funeral director, believed to have coined the professional terms mortuary and mortician.... In 1892, by now a successful businessman, he relocated to Seattle, where he went into the undertaking business in a bigger way.He purchased a controlling interest in the Cross & Co. Undertakers located in the Masonic Temple that then stood on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Pike Street. – Wikipedia
- Also on Seattle Ghosts
Featured Fade – Fox Furniture Co. – Crawford Ranges – Newton, Massachusetts – Noah Pardo
© Noah Pardo
Fox Furniture Co. / Crawford Ranges, Newton, Massachusetts
Harrington Advertising Co
© Noah Pardo
© Noah Pardo
- Also on Dr Ken Jones Ghost Signs Project
Bass-Hueter Paint Co. – Seattle, WA – Oscar Maurer, Pictorialist photographer
© Frank H. Jump
“Make that ‘ugly duckling bathroom’ the pride of your LITTLE GAY HOME IN THE WEST” – Sunset Magazine 1932 – CLICK FOR PDF – Ebay
Oscar Maurer (1870–1965) was a nationally recognized Pictorialist photographer based in California. His photographs appeared in Camera Work, Camera Craft, The Camera, and other photography journals. His studio in Berkeley, designed by Bernard Maybeck and built in 1907, is an architectural landmark.
Oscar Maurer was born in New York City and moved with his family to San Francisco in 1886. His uncle, the lithographer Louis Maurer, encouraged him to take up photography as an important new artistic medium. The teenaged Oscar got a box camera, set up a darkroom in the basement, and was soon selling a line of San Francisco scenes to local art stores. He studied chemistry and physics at the University of California but didn’t pursue a scientific career. Between 1891 and 1898, he worked as a salesman for Bass-Hueter Paint Company. By 1897 he had become a member of the California Camera Club. – Wikipedia
© Frank H. Jump
- Berkeley Heritage dot com – Berkeley Landmarks: Oscar Maurer
- Sunset Magazine ad – Ebay
Fading Ads of Greenpoint Walking Tour 2013
Today I conducted a walking tour of Greenpoint Brooklyn with Preservation Greenpoint. The tour was based on last year’s tour map- Greenpoint Fading Ads Walking Tour – Google Maps . Here are some of the images I found interesting on this trip. It was a glorious day and it was great to meet Matthew and all of the Greenpoint Preservation enthusiasts!
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Schwabacher Hardware Co – Seattle, WA
Schwabacher Hardware Co – First Avenue S. – Seattle, Washington © Frank H. Jump
Schwabacher’s Hardware Co. at First and Yesler, Seattle, circa 1900 – Wikipedia Commons
The Schwabacher Brothers—Louis Schwabacher (1837 – June 3, 1900), Abraham (Abe) Schwabacher (c. 1838 – September 7, 1909), and Sigmund (Sig) Schwabacher (May 14, 1841 – March 20, 1917)—were pioneering Bavarian-born Jewish merchants, important in the economic development of the Washington Territory and later Washington State. They owned several businesses bearing their family name, first in San Francisco, then in Walla Walla, Washington, and later in Seattle…..
The three Schwabacher brothers’ only sister, Barbetta (Babette) Schwabacher (January 3, 1836 – January 7, 1908), married the brothers’ business associate Bailey Gatzert in 1861. The couple headed in 1869 for Seattle—then a town of barely 1,000 people—where Gatzert established a branch of Schwabacher Bros. & Company. Gatzert would go on to become Seattle’s first (and, as of 2009, only) Jewish mayor. Schwabacher Bros. & Company became Seattle’s first wholesaler, with a business opened October 11, 1869. Schwabachers’ 1872 Seattle shop at Front Street (now First Avenue South) and Yesler Way was the city’s first brick building. Under Gatzert’s direction, the company also constructed a warehouse, a grist mill, and Schwabacher’s Wharf. – Wikipedia
Schwabacher interior circa 1900 – Wikipedia Commons
Key Seattle Schwabacher personnel, 1900.
Top: Sig Schwabacher.
Middle (left-to-right): Sigismund Aronson, James S. Goldsmith, George Boole.
Bottom: Nathan Eckstein. – Wikipedia Commons
© Worthpoint
This is a 5 lb Coffee Can on the front it says: M.K. (Milk Kettle) Coffee Schwabacher Bros. & Co Seattle On the back it reads; “Five Pounds Net weight, M.K (Milk Kettle) Coffee is packed in a kettle with the idea of placing Coffee in the hands of consumers in best possible condition. The package – which furnishes brand name – is more costly than the ordinary can and has a virtue aside from its use as a coffee container, no doubt apparent – particularly to house keepers. RULES FOR MAKING COFFEE: Take dry coffee, quantity desired, add boiling water, boil water and coffee five minutes, settle by adding a dash of cold water. Serve immediately with cream.” In small letters it says St. Louis Tin and Sheet metal Working Co. – Worthpoint
- Seattle: Schwabacher & Co. – Tracing the Tribe – March 26, 2008
- Schwabacher Family – Jewish Genealogy Society of Seattle
