Black and white photo taken from an elevated position. It shows an urban setting with large buildings either side of a road that runs from the foreground to the background. Some of these buildings have advertisements painted on them, and the most prominent of these has white lettering out of a dark background that reads "Owl" (from Owl Cigars) but written in reverse.
A color photo of a ghost sign, painted high on the wall of a two-story red brick building. It is rendered in white paint, and reads, "Peter Thom" in large, sans serif capitals. Below that, in much small sans serif italic capitals is "dealer in", and then below that, in the same large sans serif capitals as the first line, "groceries".
The cart entrance to the old Crown Mill on Washington Street in the Anderston Area of Glasgow. This Italianate building was constructed in 1862, but all that is now left is the boarded up ground floor. As well as the ghost sign of the mill's name over the door, you can also see the cast iron guards on either side which helped protect the corners from being damanged by carts bumping into them when passing in and out.
Color photo of a faded old sign on the side of a brick building. There is a vertical column of white bricks at the left of the frame, denoting the corner of the building, with the sign extending to the right from there into an area of darker bricks. The sign is not easily legible, but part of it reads "SHOP". It is a palimpsest, with at least two layers of signage painted over one another, one in red serif lettering, and the other in black sans-serif type.
Exterior wall of a red brick building, featuring a faded advertising sign, reading "Aug. May & Sons" at the top, with two overlapping Gold Medal Flour advertisements below.
A #ghostsign advertising Cramer's Ladies Tailoring Co. An advertisement in the Friday, August 1st edition of the St. Louis Modern View newspaper places it at 4517 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. #ghostsigns#vintage#typography#signs#graphicdesign.
A faded advertising sign for Cramer's Ladies Tailoring Company, painted on the side of a red brick building at 4517 Olive Street in St. Louis, Mo.
A #ghostsigns two-fer today. This was taken in the #stlouis#missouri Italian neighborhood known as The Hill. According to taverntrove.com, the brewery was located at Salisbury and 16th Streets from 1882-1933, and then on Florissant Ave. and Salisbury from 1933-1957, ending life from '54-'57 as part of the Carling company. Both of those locations are in downtown St. Louis, not near this location, which was almost certainly a tavern. #signs#signage#graphicdesign#typography#vintage
Photograph of the corner of a red brick building, with faded painted signage on the two visible walls. The side facing more toward the camera reads "HYDE PARK DAUGHT AND BOTTLED BEER", and the side at an angle to the camera reads "HYDE PARK" above a doorway, with "BOTTLED" vertical on the left side of the door, and "BEER" vertical on the right side.
Getting a little arty with this, but it is really just another of my #ghostsigns pictures. I can't recall what the entire sign said, or what about it made me crop it this way, but I like the composition. You might be just able to make out that this is a #palimpsest, with black serif letterforms peeking through the lighter san serif type. South #stlouis#missouri , near The Hill. #signs#signage#typography#graphicdesign#photography
Detail photograph of a faded painted sign. It is divided vertically into three sections: the top is green, with the lower portion of a tan capital E visible, the middle portion is white with a tan capital, and the lower portion is blue with the upper portion of a tan capital S visible.
A three-quarters photograph of an abandoned storefront on a disused commercial street in a rural town. The building is red brick, with a metal awning across the front, with a sign above it reading "Sanitary Grocery" in faded white painted block letters.