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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
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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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Find : ...for their piece of mind : enhancing environments for better care / Find Signage.
Find Signage (Firm)Date: [between 2010 and 2013?]
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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.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1 April 1800Reference: 26459i
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Some olde London shope signes & streete tablets of the XVI-XVII & XVIIIth centuries / [Frederick Cornman].
Cornman, F. (Frederick)Date: 1891
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A beggar wearing a placard around his neck checks the contents of his collecting tin while a beggar with two amputated feet moves past with the aid of two crutches and stumps. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 30 April 1816Reference: 44024i
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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.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1 February 1751Reference: 26456i
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Amasamang, Ghana: Semanu, a medicine man, and his two assistants, all wearing white robes, standing beside a sign advertising his services. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.
Lubinski, Kurt, 1899-1969.Date: 1940-1960Reference: 581366i
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: exterior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
Date: 1927Reference: 28913i
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Nursing in New Zealand: the choice between competition and cooperation. Colour lithograph for New Zealand Nurses Organization, 1993.
Date: August 1993Reference: 799780i
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The history of signboards : from the earliest times to the present day / by Jacob Larwood [i.e. H.D.J. Schevichaven] and John Camden Hotten.
Larwood, Jacob, 1827-1918.Date: 1869
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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.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1 February 1751Reference: 26964i
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A man and woman dance outside a tavern named after George IV, a man plays a pipe and people sit drinking decorously. Etching by T. Lane (?), 1822, after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: March 25 1822Reference: 641890i
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Stocksigns wallchart of fire signs to BS 5499 : part 1 1990 / Stocksigns Ltd.
Stocksigns Ltd.Date: 1990
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A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.
P., W., active 1827.Date: 1827Reference: 24984i
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British and European standard safety signs ... : identification systems / Focal Displays Ltd.
Focal Displays Ltd.Date: [1984?]
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Joseph Addison and Sir Roger de Coverley: an inn-sign with the head of Sir Roger is retouched as the Saracen's Head. Lithograph by T.H. Maguire after W.P. Frith, 1867.
Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909.Date: 1860-1869Reference: 2821949i
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A wall bearing the words "forest scenery" and overhung by trees at the entrance to a woodland walk. Soft-ground etching by W. Delamotte, c. 1806, after himself.
Delamotte, William, 1775-1863.Date: January 1806Reference: 20581i
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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.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: published according to Act of Parliament 1 February 1751Reference: 26979i
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Wayfinding : people, signs, and architecture / Paul Arthur and Romedi Passini.
Arthur, Paul, 1924-2001Date: [1992]
Archives and manuscripts
M0007523: Japanese apothecary sign board
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/64/71
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Ephemera
Signage / Eyeway Signs.
Date: [2014?]

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Histoire des enseignes de Paris : Revue et publiée par le Bibliophile Jacob [pseud.] avec un appendice par J. Cousin.

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].

Thirty-six health and safety signs that can be found on construction sites. Colour lithograph by the Berufsgenossenschaften der Bauwirtschaft, ca. 2000.

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.

Mantes-la-Jolie, France: the hospital on the Boulevard Saint-Lazare. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.

Find : ...for their piece of mind : enhancing environments for better care / Find Signage.

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.

Some olde London shope signes & streete tablets of the XVI-XVII & XVIIIth centuries / [Frederick Cornman].

A beggar wearing a placard around his neck checks the contents of his collecting tin while a beggar with two amputated feet moves past with the aid of two crutches and stumps. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.

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.

Amasamang, Ghana: Semanu, a medicine man, and his two assistants, all wearing white robes, standing beside a sign advertising his services. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: exterior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

Nursing in New Zealand: the choice between competition and cooperation. Colour lithograph for New Zealand Nurses Organization, 1993.

The history of signboards : from the earliest times to the present day / by Jacob Larwood [i.e. H.D.J. Schevichaven] and John Camden Hotten.

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 man and woman dance outside a tavern named after George IV, a man plays a pipe and people sit drinking decorously. Etching by T. Lane (?), 1822, after J. Gillray.

Stocksigns wallchart of fire signs to BS 5499 : part 1 1990 / Stocksigns Ltd.

A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.

British and European standard safety signs ... : identification systems / Focal Displays Ltd.

Joseph Addison and Sir Roger de Coverley: an inn-sign with the head of Sir Roger is retouched as the Saracen's Head. Lithograph by T.H. Maguire after W.P. Frith, 1867.

A wall bearing the words "forest scenery" and overhung by trees at the entrance to a woodland walk. Soft-ground etching by W. Delamotte, c. 1806, after himself.

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.

Wayfinding : people, signs, and architecture / Paul Arthur and Romedi Passini.

M0007523: Japanese apothecary sign board

Signage / Eyeway Signs.