
© Frank H. Jump
Early Mobil Oils ad campaign.
vintage mural ads & other signage by Frank H. Jump & friends
Posted in: Art, Automobiles, Chris Adams, Gas & Oil, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Photography, Propaganda, Zapf dingbats & other fonts.
Dot Earth – Climate Change & Sustainability – The melting Arctic icecap, as seen from a NASA satellite in September 2007. (AFP/Getty Images)Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. — Carl Sagan, “Pale Blue Dot” speech, 1996
Posted in: Agnosticism, Ecology, Photography, Propaganda, Science Education, Space.
Posted in: Art, Boston, John Kelly, Joni Mitchell, Music.
Posted in: Art, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Pepsi-Cola, Photography, Wes Carr.
Posted in: Art, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Photography, Tobaccoania, Urban Archaeology, Wes Carr.


© Bob Kisken
These are on the old RR station in Green Bay. It is now a brew pub. Good food. One has been repainted- one hasn’t. Cheers, Bob
Posted in: Art, Bob Kisken, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Green Bay WI, Photography, Railroad, Railways, Visual Anthropology.
Posted in: Art, Furniture, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Worcester.
William Donovan, an amazing visual artist & teacher whose work we had exhibited at our Fading AIDS Gallery in its heyday, is also a member of the visualAIDS archive. Here is a bio from this site:
William Donovan is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. He utilizes life experiences as well as current social and political issues to create art. Donovan holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in Fine Arts, as well as an AAS in Fashion Illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology, where he currently teaches. He has studied at The Arts Students League, The Philadelphia Institute of the Arts and the Parsons School of Art.
Posted in: Art, HIV/AIDS Education, William Donovan.
After an Internet search, I found a phone number and address for Macey Sign Co. (38 Mason Street, Worcester, MA 01610), a family run business since 1910. The Cotter’s Leather Goods sign was one of the first they were commissioned to paint according to the owner.
Posted in: Commercial Advertising, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Harnesses & Saddlery, Leather Goods, Urban Archaeology, Worcester.

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