History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~Winston Churchill

18 July, 2014

Everywhere a Sign

Photographic evidence of the long history of being told to do this and don't do that....


George Eastman House

Take a Kodak with you! Autochrome, ca. 1917. Source




State Library of New South Wales

Keep your feet off the walls. Australia, 1947. Source




National Library of Scotland

Two WWI soldiers at a village sign, coming with the quietly devastating caption, "Owing to modern artillery, captured villages have to be marked with a sign board." Source






An ambrotype of man painting a sign, ca. 1858. Even if it wasn't noted, this photo is almost guaranteed to be am ambrotype instead of a daguerreotype or tintype, which can look similar, especially in their digitized forms--daguerreotypes and tintypes reverse images right-left, so the writing would be backwards. Source




Oregon State University

A sign for farm labor, Oregon, 1944. Source




State Library and Archives Florida

Ducks not swimming beyond the point, Florida, 1949. Source




Stockholm Transit Museum

A man painting transit signs, Stockholm, 1943. Source




Powerhouse Museum

Billboards, Sydney, Australia, 1923. Source




National Library of Scotland

A soldier regards a sign describing the offerings of a canteen on the Western Front, WWI. Source




Stockholm Transport Museum

Men putting up a sign for a new subway station, Stockholm, 1961. Source




Library of Congress

Signs outside a grocery store in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942. Source




State Library of Queensland

Sign for a military police checkpoint in Queensland, 1943. Source




Tyne and Wear Archives and Museum

Shipyard workers with a sign welcoming the King and Queen, Tyne and Wear, UK, 1943. Source





Women making fun of a sign about bathing suits, Miami, 1934. Source




National Library of Scotland

Two soliders look at a sign advertising an entertainment group visiting the trenches, WWI. Source




New York Public Library

A sign for signs, New York, 1935. Source


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