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Picture credits.

The old photographs of shop signs, sign writers and hoardings on this site come from public collections. They show the trade we work in, not our own clients or work.

Three sign writers painting the names Balfours, The Age and Truth onto a wall, South Australia

Courtney Cooke's shop at 44 Hindley Street, Adelaide, its name painted large across the front

Britannia House on Hindley Street, Adelaide, around 1871, with painted wholesale and retail signs

J. Craven and Co's signs along the corner of Rundle and Pulteney Streets, Adelaide

Rundle Street, Adelaide, in 1916, its verandahs crowded with shop signs

A lit Penfolds Wines shop window display at night, Sydney, 1939

Fred Loudon's motorcycle shop on a Sydney street corner in 1938, its name wrapped around the awning

Painted advertising hoardings beside a road, around 1930

Sources and licences

Sign writers showing three men doing different signs - BALFOURS, THE AGE, TRUTH signs. State Government Photographer. CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
View of a shop (Courtney Cooke ) in Hindley Street, Adelaide. Alfred Vaughan. CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
View of a shop in Hindley Street, Adelaide circa 1871. Alfred Vaughan. CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Corner Rundle and Pulteney Streets. South Australian government photographer. CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A view of Rundle Street and the dome of Adelaide Arcade 1916.. State Government Photographer. CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
SLNSW 12216 Penfolds Wines display in shop windows. Sam Hood. public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
SLNSW 11535 Fred Loudons motorcycle shop with Francis-Barnett motorcycles corner Elizabeth and Goulburn Street. Sam Hood. public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Advertising Hoarding (circa 1930) William. museumofnewzealand. CC0, via rawpixel.

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