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Prendergast Wedding
Submitted by Ken on Tue, 07/31/2007 - 6:30am.
The wedding of Miss Speed to Major Prendergast. Photograph by Matson Photo Service, 1940-1946. View full size.
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Col. Maduro Cigars: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 9:19pm.
August 1908. Col. Maduro cigar factory in Indianapolis, Indiana. View full size. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. Note Celery Cola cap worn by boy on the right.
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Shano Collins: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 8:34pm.
John "Shano" Collins, first baseman for the Chicago White Sox, at bat in 1920. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Federal Art Project Posters
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 4:08pm.
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We have a number of Federal Art Project / WPA posters from the late 1930s now available as Juniper Gallery Fine Art Prints! Including, yes, the much- requested oral-realist masterpiece Keep Your Teeth Clean. High-resolution, digitally restored and printed on Arches Infinity archival French art paper.
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A Female Drummer: 1898
Submitted by Ken on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 3:46pm.
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"Chas. E. Blaney's Big Extravaganza Success." This is a lithograph advertising the theatrical comedy "A Female Drummer," c. 1898. View full size.
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Drink Coca-Cola 5¢
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 5:54am.
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A Coca-Cola chromolithograph from the 1890s. View full size. Now available as a Juniper Gallery Fine-Art Print in three delicious and refreshing sizes. Coca-Cola is a registered trademark of the Coca-Cola Company.
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The Ideal Brain Tonic
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 1:05am.
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A very early use of Coca-Cola's now-familiar Spencerian script logo (at least the earliest example we could find in a newspaper archive of more than 64 million pages) was in this April 15, 1894, ad for the Douglas, Thomas & Davison soda fountain in Atlanta, birthplace of Coke and home of the new Coca-Cola museum. [Credit: NewspaperArchive.com]
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