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Signs and signboards

Images

  • A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.
  • Mantes-la-Jolie, France: the hospital on the Boulevard Saint-Lazare. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.
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    Histoire des enseignes de Paris : Revue et publiée par le Bibliophile Jacob [pseud.] avec un appendice par J. Cousin.

    Fournier, Edouard, 1819-1880. | Date: 1884
    • Books

    Tavern anecdotes, and reminiscences of the origin of signs, clubs, coffee-houses, streets, city companies, wards, etc., intended as a lounge-book for Londoners and their country cousins / By one of the old school. [W. West].

    West, William, 1770-1854. | Date: [1825]
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    Thirty-six health and safety signs that can be found on construction sites. Colour lithograph by the Berufsgenossenschaften der Bauwirtschaft, ca. 2000.

    Berufsgenossenschaften der Bauwirtschaft. | Date: [2000?] | Reference: 755260i
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    The trade signs of Essex : a popular account of the origin and meanings of the public house & other signs now or formerly found in the county of Essex / by Miller Christy.

    Christy, Miller, 1861- | Date: 1887
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    Mantes-la-Jolie, France: the hospital on the Boulevard Saint-Lazare. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.

    | Date: [1920?] | Reference: 569050i
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