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Stenography, Typewriting, Accounting
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vintage mural ads & other signage by Frank H. Jump & friends
Posted in: Art, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Queens.




© Frank H. Jump
The advertising for Sachs New York was commissioned by the Mack Sign Company. Other Macks signs on my Fading Ad Campaign Website. Check out Walter Grutchfield’s 14th to 42nd for an in-depth history of the Mack Sign Company.
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Posted in: Furniture, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Mack Signs, Photography, Propaganda, Queens.
Brian from New York Daily Photo provides in-depth historical and contextual information about these New York City waterfront icons.
Posted in: Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, NY Waterfront, NYC, Pepsi-Cola, Photography.
A blog about music singles out Joni Mitchell’s 1975 release, The Hissing of Summer Lawns. This is perhaps my all-time favorite album and perhaps the only thing Prince and I agree on these days.
dk again with STUCK IN MY HEAD later in July 2010
Posted in: Joni Mitchell, Music, Propaganda.
Posted in: Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Sam Roberts.
Samuel Rubel (1881 – 1949) “Coal Miner & Ice Retailer”
View train records at Trains Are Fun.
Read more at Walter Grutchfield’s NYC Signs – 14th To 42nd Street
Also see Rubel’s affiliation with Stillwater Lake in Pocono Summit, Pennsylvania.
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Posted in: Coal & Ice, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Photography, Queens, Science Education.
Posted in: Photography, Queens, Urban Architecture.
courtesy of Brian (formerly from Dallas, PA)
My buddy Brian took these shots on his way up to a Pumpkin Festival on Washington Street in Keene, New Hampshire. More pumpkin facts: as in most vine flowers, pumpkin flowers are either male or female (rarely hermaphroditic or perfect flowers- which contain both male and female flower parts – as in roses).
This photo depicts a funny marriage between pumpkin flowers &
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Posted in: Coca-Cola, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Horticulture, New Hampshire, Photography, Propaganda, Visual Anthropology, Zapf dingbats & other fonts.
Visit Tod Swormstedt’s American Sign Museum online and become a member- or if you are ever in Cincinnati, OH – swing by and say hello for me! Check out their page about OJ Gude & early signage.
Posted in: Brooklyn, Frank H. Jump, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, OJ Gude, Photography, Propaganda, Queens.
Official outing fuels & fans already flaming fires of radical Christians’ abhorrence of “witchcraft” tale.
Posted in: Humor, LGBTQ related, Propaganda, Vagaries.

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