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Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising si...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Some of the neon at the museum dates to the 1940s and even earlier. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Librar... More

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising si...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Some of the neon at the museum dates to the 1940s and even earlier. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Librar... More

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising si...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Some of the neon at the museum dates to the 1940s and even earlier. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Librar... More

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising si...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Some of the neon at the museum dates to the 1940s and even earlier. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Librar... More

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising si...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Some of the neon at the museum dates to the 1940s and even earlier. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Librar... More

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising si...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Some of the neon at the museum dates to the 1940s and even earlier. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Librar... More

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Brightly glowing neon signs are some of the hundreds of advertising si...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Some of the neon at the museum dates to the 1940s and even earlier. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Librar... More

Old Coca-Cola sign with some local identification in Hoboken, Georgia

Old Coca-Cola sign with some local identification in Hoboken, Georgia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Surviving sign for the Wyoming Times newspaper, which published for just 31 years, from 1908 to 1938, in Evanston, a Uinta County city in the very southwest corner of Wyoming

Surviving sign for the Wyoming Times newspaper, which published for ju...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Faded Coca-Cola sign on the side of the Emporium western-wear store, and above an incongruous sidewalk bathtub, in Gonzales, Texas

Faded Coca-Cola sign on the side of the Emporium western-wear store, a...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1888 by C.H. Hoskins, this building has had very little change. The exterior stone came from the Maurin Quarry, nine miles e... More

Billboard for Chero-Cola, a long-defunct soft-drink brand, in Louisville, a town in northeastern Georgia

Billboard for Chero-Cola, a long-defunct soft-drink brand, in Louisvil...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Named for French King Louis XVI in appreciation for French assistance to the colonists during the American Revolution. Begun in 1910, ... More

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Apropos advertising signs in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Te...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Hand-painted sign for a restaurant in Brownwood, the seat of Brown County in Central Texas

Hand-painted sign for a restaurant in Brownwood, the seat of Brown Cou...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old Bull Durham tobacco advertising poster in Giddings, the seat of Lee County, Texas, east of Austin

Old Bull Durham tobacco advertising poster in Giddings, the seat of Le...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old Dr. Pepper advertising sign on a downtown building in Pittsburg, Texas

Old Dr. Pepper advertising sign on a downtown building in Pittsburg, T...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

An old, painted Coca-Cola sign on the side of a building in the town of Grand Saline in Van Zandt County, Texas

An old, painted Coca-Cola sign on the side of a building in the town o...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

An old, or at least old-style, drug store sign in Galveston, Texas

An old, or at least old-style, drug store sign in Galveston, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Unusual parking-garage sign in downtown Dallas, Texas

Unusual parking-garage sign in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Route 180, once the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas. The restaurant was founded by Greek immigrant Theo Chokas in 1956

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, alon...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Vintage marquee for Buford Drug Store in Terrell, Texas, east of Dallas

Vintage marquee for Buford Drug Store in Terrell, Texas, east of Dalla...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Neon sign outside Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Route 180, once the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas. The restaurant was founded by Greek immigrant Theo Chokas in 1956

Neon sign outside Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas

Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in Pipe Creek, a small community in B...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Dr. Pepper beverage advertising sign on a building in downtown Mount Pleasant, Texas

Dr. Pepper beverage advertising sign on a building in downtown Mount P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Provocative neon sign at a Lucy's Fried Chicken location on Burnet Road in Austin, Texas

Provocative neon sign at a Lucy's Fried Chicken location on Burnet Roa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Sign for an old cotton gin, converted into a restaurant, near the town of Bardwell in Ellis County, Texas

Sign for an old cotton gin, converted into a restaurant, near the town...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Store sign in tiny Crawford, Texas, which (in the second decade of the 21st Century) has returned to its quiet state following eight years of media attention and occasional crushes of visitors during the U.S. presidential administration of George W. Bush in the early 2000s. The former president and Mrs. Bush maintain their "Texas White House" Prairie Chapel ranch nearby

Store sign in tiny Crawford, Texas, which (in the second decade of the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

An imaginative neon sign promoting Doc's Bar and Grill in Austin, Texas

An imaginative neon sign promoting Doc's Bar and Grill in Austin, Texa...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old Dr Pepper mural on a building in the town of Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

Old Dr Pepper mural on a building in the town of Hico in Hamilton Coun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Libr... More

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Restored former "ghost sign" of a Dr. Pepper ad on the side of Dee's Place soda fountain and diner in Corsicana, Texas

Restored former "ghost sign" of a Dr. Pepper ad on the side of Dee's P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas

Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in Pipe Creek, a small community in B...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Route 180, once the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas. The restaurant was founded by Greek immigrant Theo Chokas in 1956

Neon sign for Theo's drive-in restaurant in Grand Prairie, Texas, alon...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

A tattered advertising sign that borrowed the motif of the Texas state "lone star" flag

A tattered advertising sign that borrowed the motif of the Texas state...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Horse figure, a longtime signature of Fincher's White Front Western Store on Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Horse figure, a longtime signature of Fincher's White Front Western St...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Peanut and Texas flag art on a peanut factory in Giddings, the seat of Lee County, Texas, east of Austin

Peanut and Texas flag art on a peanut factory in Giddings, the seat of...

Mural artist: M. Shurley, '98. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Li... More

Sign for the old Man's Store antiques and collectibles business in Cisco, Texas

Sign for the old Man's Store antiques and collectibles business in Cis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Neon sign for an Austin, Texas, Mexican restaurant

Neon sign for an Austin, Texas, Mexican restaurant

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Colorful cafe sign near Mission Concepcion" in San Antonio, Texas

Colorful cafe sign near Mission Concepcion" in San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in downtown San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas

Old Coca-Cola sign on a building in downtown San Angelo, the seat of T...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Classic "Elsie the Cow" advertising sign at a still-operating Borden's Dairy plant in Dallas, Texas

Classic "Elsie the Cow" advertising sign at a still-operating Borden's...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Dr. Pepper beverage advertising sign on a building in downtown Mount Pleasant, Texas

Dr. Pepper beverage advertising sign on a building in downtown Mount P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A fetching cowgirl-themed advertising sign for the Wagon Wheel Antique Mall in the town of Murchison in Henderson County, Texas

A fetching cowgirl-themed advertising sign for the Wagon Wheel Antique...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Former advertising sign and street clock of a onetime department store in El Paso, Texas

Former advertising sign and street clock of a onetime department store...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Sign for a camping park in Alpine in southwest Texas

Sign for a camping park in Alpine in southwest Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Appropriate advertising sign for Leddy's boot shop in the Stockyards D...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Nostalgic sign announcing the Marfa Hill House, or Marfa House on the Hall, an adobe retreat in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

Nostalgic sign announcing the Marfa Hill House, or Marfa House on the ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Surprising because, unlike most surrounding farming and ranching towns in the high desert of the Texas "Trans-Pecos" region, Marfa ha... More

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Highway 180, which used to be the main highway between Dallas and Fort Worth

Sign for the Tradewinds Hotel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Sign for an abandoned motel in Monahans, southwest of Odessa in Ward County, Texas

Sign for an abandoned motel in Monahans, southwest of Odessa in Ward C...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

An old, painted Coca-Cola sign on the side of a building in the town of Grand Saline in Van Zandt County, Texas

An old, painted Coca-Cola sign on the side of a building in the town o...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Sign for the old Man's Store antiques and collectibles business in Cisco, Texas

Sign for the old Man's Store antiques and collectibles business in Cis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Imaginative advertising sign in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne. The rider looks more like a pilgrim than a cowboy, however

Imaginative advertising sign in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne. The rider...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Old Coca-Cola and local restaurant signs on a wall in downtown Morgantown, West Virginia

Old Coca-Cola and local restaurant signs on a wall in downtown Morgant...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Sign on the window, and reflection of businesses across the street, at the Doc Holliday Casino in Central City, Colorado

Sign on the window, and reflection of businesses across the street, at...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Sheridan Iron Works in Sheridan, Wyoming. The building and its iconic sign, the first lighted advertising display sign in the northern Wyoming city, began operations in the firs decade of the 20th Century

The Sheridan Iron Works in Sheridan, Wyoming. The building and its ico...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

"Drugs" sign outside a pharmacy on the portion of the National Road that runs through Wheeling, West Virginia

"Drugs" sign outside a pharmacy on the portion of the National Road th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

A not-altogether-flattering caricature of an American Indian that serves as an advertising sign for the Toh-Atin Art Gallery in Durango, Colorado

A not-altogether-flattering caricature of an American Indian that serv...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Landmark Bar marquee in Wheatland a town in northeast Wyoming

Landmark Bar marquee in Wheatland a town in northeast Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in downtown Pueblo, Colorado

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in downtown Pueblo, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Rifle-themed advertising sign for a liquor and grocery store in Central City, Colorado

Rifle-themed advertising sign for a liquor and grocery store in Centra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Remnants of an old "GE" (for General Electric) sign at the Johnson Electric Co. in Pueblo, Colorado

Remnants of an old "GE" (for General Electric) sign at the Johnson Ele...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Giant pig outside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Giant pig outside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Wash...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters, some of them giant-sized like this pig. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

An original McDonald's fast-food franchise "golden arches" neon sign is one of hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An original McDonald's fast-food franchise "golden arches" neon sign i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

An elaborate painted sign, of four completed in three days in 2015 by "lettermen," as artistic sign painters call themselves, who met for a convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, and stopped by the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood to see the museum and demonstrate their trade

An elaborate painted sign, of four completed in three days in 2015 by ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This one depicts a sign painter in action using "distressed" techniques in which the painter creates the illusion of an old and faded ... More

Expressive, salvaged neon signs inside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Expressive, salvaged neon signs inside the American Sign Museum in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congr... More

Old Mail Pouch tobacco advertising sign on a barn in rural Holmes County, Ohio

Old Mail Pouch tobacco advertising sign on a barn in rural Holmes Coun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Painted signs touting the chewing tobacco, made in Wheeling in neighboring West Virginia, once proliferated throughout the American So... More

This store in Guttenberg, Iowa, offers many goods, food, and services for sale. But the figure at the top of its store sign makes its specialty clear

This store in Guttenberg, Iowa, offers many goods, food, and services ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Fanciful sign for the town laundromat; here divided into two words for unknown reasons; in downtown Dubois, Wyoming. The entrance to the washing facility, which inexplicably also includes showers for customers, is surrounded by a large, gaping, faux cow skull

Fanciful sign for the town laundromat; here divided into two words for...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Apt advertising sign above a downtown coffeehouse in the Mississippi River port of La Crosse, Wisconsin

Apt advertising sign above a downtown coffeehouse in the Mississippi R...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Giant pig outside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Giant pig outside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Wash...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters, some of them giant-sized like this pig. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

An array of advertising signs inside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An array of advertising signs inside the American Sign Museum in the i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elsewhere are hundreds more of such signs, placards, posters, and giant roadside advertising figures. Credit line: Photographs in the ... More

An original McDonald's fast-food franchise "golden arches" neon sign is one of hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An original McDonald's fast-food franchise "golden arches" neon sign i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Old, but refurbished, or, as the message says, "refreshed" Coca-Cola sign in Lafayette, Indiana

Old, but refurbished, or, as the message says, "refreshed" Coca-Cola s...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Expressive, salvaged neon signs inside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Expressive, salvaged neon signs inside the American Sign Museum in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congr... More

Giant roadside advertising figure, currently reclining and awaiting installation, outside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Giant roadside advertising figure, currently reclining and awaiting in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of such signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

Expressive, salvaged neon signs inside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Expressive, salvaged neon signs inside the American Sign Museum in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congr... More

Old advertising sign on building in Pontotoc, Mississippi

Old advertising sign on building in Pontotoc, Mississippi

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A classic outdoor neon sign advertising one of the locations of the Howard Johnson's motel and restaurant chain, is one of hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

A classic outdoor neon sign advertising one of the locations of the Ho...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

An outsized "welcome" sign introduces visitors to the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An outsized "welcome" sign introduces visitors to the American Sign Mu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of such signs, placards, and posters. The giant fair-haired fellow is a form of highway advertising figures o... More

An array of advertising signs inside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An array of advertising signs inside the American Sign Museum in the i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elsewhere are hundreds more of such signs, placards, posters, and giant roadside advertising figures. Credit line: Photographs in the ... More

Old and faded advertising sign in Clarksdale, a prominent home to old-time blues music in the Mississippi (River) Delta region in Northwest Mississippi

Old and faded advertising sign in Clarksdale, a prominent home to old-...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

An array of advertising signs inside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An array of advertising signs inside the American Sign Museum in the i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elsewhere are hundreds more of such signs, placards, posters, and giant roadside advertising figures. Credit line: Photographs in the ... More

Elaborate painted sign, one of four completed in three days in 2015 by "lettermen," as artistic sign painters call themselves, who met for a convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, and stopped by the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood to see the museum and demonstrate their trade

Elaborate painted sign, one of four completed in three days in 2015 by...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of such signs, placards, and posters. This sign depicts important aspects of Cincinnati's legendary Crosley C... More

Sign for the Twin Pines Lodge in Dubois, Wyoming

Sign for the Twin Pines Lodge in Dubois, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Forlorn neon advertising sign, a remnant of an abandoned motel awaiting installation, outside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Forlorn neon advertising sign, a remnant of an abandoned motel awaitin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of such signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

A classic outdoor neon sign advertising one of the locations of the Howard Johnson's motel and restaurant chain, is one of hundreds of advertising signs, placards, and posters displayed at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

A classic outdoor neon sign advertising one of the locations of the Ho...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Old advertising sign for a "blood purifier" potion in Delphi, Indiana

Old advertising sign for a "blood purifier" potion in Delphi, Indiana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Outsized "welcome" sign outside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Outsized "welcome" sign outside the American Sign Museum in the indust...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of signs, placards, and posters. The giant fair-haired fellow is a form of highway advertising figures often ... More

Advertising mural touting a Studebaker automobile model in South Bend, Indiana, where Studebaker cars were made

Advertising mural touting a Studebaker automobile model in South Bend,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Two signs outside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Two signs outside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Wash...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congr... More

Expressive, salvaged neon signs inside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Expressive, salvaged neon signs inside the American Sign Museum in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congr... More

An example of an early highway gasoline station, as well as a small sample of exuberant advertising signs at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An example of an early highway gasoline station, as well as a small sa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elsewhere are hundreds more of such signs, placards, posters, and giant roadside advertising figures. Credit line: Photographs in the ... More

Old, retrieved neon sign from the Beaman Pontiac auto dealership in Cincinnati, Ohio, awaiting rehabilitation and installation at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of the city

Old, retrieved neon sign from the Beaman Pontiac auto dealership in Ci...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of such signs, placards, and posters. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of... More

A rescued Holiday Inn hotel sign awaiting rehabilitation outside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

A rescued Holiday Inn hotel sign awaiting rehabilitation outside the A...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside are hundreds more of such signs, including a fully illuminated Holiday Inn one, as well as many placards, and posters. Credit l... More

An array of painted advertising signs inside the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An array of painted advertising signs inside the American Sign Museum ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elsewhere are hundreds more of such signs, placards, posters, and giant roadside advertising figures. Credit line: Photographs in the ... More

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