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Shano Collins: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 8:34pm.
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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]
Filogamo & Alvarez: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 11:39am.
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Tampa, Florida. Cigarmakers in the factory of Filogamo & Alvarez, January 1909. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. This part of Tampa is the now fashionably upscale Ybor City district, where many of the old cigar factories have been repurposed as apartments, condos and gallery spaces. Starbucks, anyone?
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Ybor City: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 11:38am.
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January 1909. "Young cigarmakers in Englehardt & Co., Tampa. Youngsters all smoke." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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