vintage mural ads & other signage by Frank H. Jump & friends
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© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Negroes in Tennessee
- Little is known concerning the coming of the first Negroes to Tennessee, but there is reason to believe that they were in the territory much earlier than is commonly supposed. It is probable that Negroes were with De Soto when he camped near the present site of Memphis in 1541, since they were known to have been with him when he left Spain the previous year. A century later the French are reported to have sent “an army of 1,200 white men and double that number of red and black men who took up their quarters in Fort Assumption, on the bluff of Memphis.” The next Negro to set foot on Tennessee soil seems to have been with Colonel James Smith and a group of Long Hunters who explored the Cumberland country in 1766. Known to history merely as “Jim” this “mulatto lad” inspired a stanza in Colonel Smith’s diary. Another “negro fellow” accompanied James Robertson in 1779 when he came down from the Holston Settlement to the site of what is now Nashville.
- The new settlers brought Negroes with them and by 1790, when the first census was taken, there were 3,417 slaves in the Territory. Six years later, when Tennessee became a State, there were 10,613 Negroes in a population of 77,282. As a result of the invention of the cotton gin and the rapid growth of the cotton industry, slavery was widely expanded between 1790 and 1835. By 1840 Tennessee had 183,057 slaves whose per capita value was about $550 as compared to less than $100 in 1790. – TENNESSEE: A GUIDE TO THE STATE – New Deal Network – Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
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Tennessee's historic landscapes: a traveler's guide By Carroll Van West - Google Books
Omega Oil, 1997 – Fading Ad Campaign © Frank H. Jump
This is the first image I ever shot for the Fading Ad Campaign. Below are some pics I took when revisiting Omega for the filming of the documentary short Not Fade Away by director Jim Sayegh.
December 5, 2009 © Frank H. Jump
December 5, 2009 © Frank H. Jump
December 5, 2009 © Frank H. Jump
December 5, 2009 © Frank H. Jump
Reflection in Police Precinct’s Window – December 5, 2009 © Frank H. Jump
Working cover for upcoming book © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
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© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
About Middletown Footwear, Inc.:
A family business based New York, Middletown Footwear, Inc. sells women’s slippers, espadrilles, bridal shoes and evening shoes. Founded in 1936 when Falk Levine created the first Mule, Middletown Footwear imports its products from Spain, France, China, and Hong Kong. In addition to its flagship brand Jacques Levine, Middletown Footwear has a long history of producing private label footwear for luxury brands. – www.jacqueslevine.com
© Frank H. Jump
Myers Self Oiling Water Systems & Pumps © Frank H. Jump
Mill Supply Tools – Copper & Galvanized Sheets – Gutters & Leaders © Frank H. Jump
Modern Showrooms – Standard & Individual Bathrooms © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Myers, founded in 1870 by Francis and Philip Myers in Ashland, Ohio, the brothers began by building farm implements then engineered and manufactured the first double-acting hand pump that delivered water on both the up and down strokes. From this modest beginning, the Myers pump line grew and evolved over the decades to include wastewater removal and industrial pumps and systems. In 1960 the Myers family sold the business to the McNeil Corporation of Akron, Ohio. In 1986 the business was acquired by Pentair, Inc. of St. Paul, Minnesota where Myers is part of this $3 billion corporation’s water products group. Myers is located on 80 acres in Ashland and operates in a modern 410,000 square foot manufacturing, distribution, foundry, and office facility employing approximately 600 people dedicated to supplying top quality jet and submersible well pumps; utility, sump and sewage pumps; effluent pumps; non-clog and other large waste handling pumps; and high pressure reciprocating and centrifugal pumps and pumping systems for residential, agricultural, commercial, municipal and industrial applications for North America and more than 100 foreign countries. – AEC Info
Myers Manual – eBay Auction Item
Popular Mechanics – Google Books
eBay Auction Item circa 1925
eBay Auction Item circa 1926
eBay Auction Item circa 1927
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 330,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 14 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 205 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 2501 posts. There were 62 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 17mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was February 16th with 1,368 views. The most popular post that day was Graffiti Under the I-95 Overpass – Ft Lauderdale, FL.
The top referring sites in 2010 were networkedblogs.com, search.aol.com, frankjump.com, en.wordpress.com, and google.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for graffiti, trans, sin city, chatham artillery punch, and anita bryant.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Graffiti Under the I-95 Overpass – Ft Lauderdale, FL December 2007
6 comments
Keuffel & Esser Co., Drafting Materials, Surveying Instruments… Hannes Taylor Co (Adv) – Ann Street, South of City Hall – NYC March 2008
42 comments
Chatham Artillery Punch – River House – Savannah, GA January 2009
2 comments
Public Market Artist Likes Rosario Dawson – Seattle, WA December 2009
2 comments
AO Smith – Harvestore Silo – Ross Corner Junction – Routes 15 N – 206 N – Sussex County, NJ March 2008
33 comments
A. Botsay - possibly a notary. © Pardo Family
A. Botsay & Unknown Whiskey ad © Pardo Family
© Pardo Family
© Pardo Family
© Pardo Family
© Pardo Family
Gary, Dustin , Estelle & Noah Pardo © Pardo Family
This holiday vacation, my dear friends Gary & Estelle took their two sons to New Orleans for the week. Although it was chilly, they escaped the blizzard. Thank you for snapping these fading ads. Anyone out there familiar with the first one?
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BRIC has announced that December 27th – December 31st will be its “Best of Brooklyn Independent Television Week.” This special week of programming will visit some of our favorite Brooklyn Independent Television stories covered in 2010.
Out of the hundreds of packages we created in the past year or so, a Brooklyn Review segment featuring Fading Ad Blog has been selected for the Best of BIT: Brooklyn Tours episode. We thought you’d like to know so you can tell your friends, neighbors and more about your special selection and the airing of Best of BIT: Brooklyn Tours.
The Best of BIT: Brooklyn Tours episode will air at 1:00pm and 9:00pm on Wednesday, December 29th on BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn’s BCAT TV Network. (If you do spread the word, please tell your friends it’ll air “On Brooklyn Independent Television on the BCAT TV Network”—we underwent a branding change and need to get the new verbiage out there.)
Best of BIT: Brooklyn Tours will air on Brooklyn’s Time Warner 56, Cablevision 69, RCN 84 and in all five boroughs on Verizon 44. It will also stream online at www.bricartsmedia.org/bit (launch Channel 3). It will be available online at www.bricartsmedia.org/bitspecials a couple days after its airdate.
For our official press release, visit http://bk.ly/w40 (we’ve also got it posted on our blog at http://bk.ly/w46) with future plugging coming to our various social media platforms including Facebook (www.facebook.com/bkindependenttv ) and Twitter (@bkindependenttv).
We hope you’ll enjoy your feature on Best of BIT: Brooklyn Tours. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at this email address or direct telephone number listed below.
Thank you for your continued support of BRIC’s Brooklyn Independent Television on the BCAT TV Network!
Sincerely,
Ms. Lee Eddy
Marketing & Communications Manager
BRIC Community Media
Thank you Lee! It is an honor to serve the Brooklyn historical community.
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