Did you guys know that Los Angeles has one of the last remaining programs in the United States in which you can formally learn sign painting from a master craftsman?
Students mastering the art of show card writing.
Sign Painter Chancey Curtis working in a Mankato Minnesota theater, 1930’s.
Early 1900s municipal sign shop, Portland, Oregon
“From 1984 to circa 2001, I created seasonal designer collections based on the missing links that institutions overlooked. Based both on Early American textiles and contemporary styling, my garments referred to the early age of photography, from turn-of-century erotica to the Depression era.” - J. Morgan Puett
Country store on dirt road, Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939 by Dorthea Lange
Baltimore Harbor, 1955, by A. Aubrey Bodine
Boy working in factory, Alexandria, Virginia, 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine
Greetings.
Billy Joe Royal - Down In The Boondocks
