Before they were Ghosts
This blog focuses on remnants of advertising and signage from a different period as they appear today. Here are some great photographs from the Philadelphia Department of Records showing signage as it was, long before some would become ghosts.
I found these via PhillyHistory.org, a mapping website that allows users to search for, view by location, and purchase thousands of historic photographs dating back to the late nineteenth century.
15-21 and 100 N Juniper Street, 1911
42-44 S. Delaware Avenue, 1898
Front and Girard, 1916
143 Front Street, 1918
Front and Arch, 1918
Ridge and Callowhill, 1930
Market and Water Streets, 1953
Front and Market Streets, 1952
American and Fairmount, 1955
Front and Arch Streets, 1959
PhillyHistory.org. Philadelphia Department of Records. 18 November 2007. <http://www.phillyhistory.org>.
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