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Signs and signboards

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• Advertising
• Visual communication

• Posters

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• Wooden signs and signboards

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• Signage
• Sign-boards
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• Signs

• The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Milestones and the Old Post Road (reprinted from the Historical Guide to the City of New York, revised, 1915; New York: City History Club of New York, 1915), by George W. Nash and Hopper Striker Mott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Die Antiken Steindenkmäler des Provinzialmuseums in Bonn (in German; Bonn: In Kommission der Buchhandlung F. Cohen, 1918), by Hans Lehner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Grade Severity Rating System (GSRS): Users Manual (McLean, VA: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1989), by Brian L. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advanced Vehicle/Highway Systems and Urban Traffic Problems (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1911), by Kate Sanborn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including the Leonard A. Lauder Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by David W. Kiehl, Phillip Dennis Cate, and Nancy Finlay (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including the Leonard A. Lauder Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by David W. Kiehl, Phillip Dennis Cate, and Nancy Finlay (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including the Leonard A. Lauder Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by David W. Kiehl, Phillip Dennis Cate, and Nancy Finlay (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Guidelines for Poster Presentations (1986), by Centers for Disease Control (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Posters Issued by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation: Reproduced in Miniature and Printed in One Impression Only ("book no. 1" apparently only one issued; 1918), by United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (page images here at Penn)

• Advertising Theory and Practice (revised edition; Chicago: R. D. Irwin, 1946), by C. H. Sandage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ayer Idea in Advertising (c1912), by N.W. Ayer & Son (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Forty Years of Advertising: A Collection of Somewhat Intimate Talks on Certain Phases of Advertising, by the Largest and Leading Agency (Philadelphia et al.: N. W. Ayer and Son, c1909), by N.W. Ayer & Son (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scientific Advertising (1923), by Claude C. Hopkins (PDF with commentary at scientificadvertising.com)
• Publicity: Some of the Things It Is and Is Not (New York: Industries Publishing Company, 1925), by Ivy L. Lee (page images at loc.gov)
• The Story of a Pantry Shelf: An Outline History of Grocery Specialties, by Butterick Publishing Company (HTML and page images at LOC)

• A Hole to Creep Out at From the Late Act of Parliament Against Geneva, and Other Spirituous Liquors: By a New Dram Far Better Than Gin, and a New Punch, Far Wholesomer Than Either Brandy, Rum, or Arrack Punch (London: Printed by J. Hughs, 1736) (page images at NIH)

• Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (New York and London: NYU Press, c2010), by Jonathan Gray (multiple formats with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Baby Killer: A War on Want Investigation Into the Promotion and Sale of Powdered Baby Milks in the Third World (London: War on Want, 1974), by Mike Muller (PDF with commentary at waronwant.org)

• The Baby Killer: A War on Want Investigation Into the Promotion and Sale of Powdered Baby Milks in the Third World (London: War on Want, 1974), by Mike Muller (PDF with commentary at waronwant.org)

• The Comical Cruises of Captain Cooky (New York: Royal Baking Powder Co., ca. 1926), by Ruth Plumly Thompson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Labor of God: An Ignatian View of Church and Culture (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1991), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)

• Deities & Deadlines: A Primer on Religion News Coverage (second edition, 1998), by John Dart (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson: By One of the Firm (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1870), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• This Side of Paradise (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Bartleby

• The Jolly Adventures of Billy Van and Betty Camp (Indianapolis: Van Camp Products Co., c1923), by Edward M. Carney, illust. by Carl Mueller
  • page images at Princeton
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Andy Blake's Comet Coaster (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Printers' Ink (partial serial archives)
• Printers' Ink Monthly (partial serial archives)

• The Psychology of Advertising in Theory and Practice: A Simple Exposition of the Principles of Psychology in Their Relation to Successful Advertising (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), by Walter Dill Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Joe Camel With Feathers: How the NRA With Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids (Washington: Violence Policy Center, 1997; two appendices omitted), by Susan Glick and Josh Sugarmann (HTML at vpc.org)

• Wright's Alphabet Book (London: Wright's Coal Tar Soap, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)

• Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, c2009), by Michael R. Solomon, Lisa Duke Cornell, and Amit Nizan (PDF at saylor.org)

• The Adams Articles, Published in the New York Tribune During the Months of January and February Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen, With the Incidental Advertisements (New York: Trow Press, ca. 1915), by Samuel Hopkins Adams, ed. by New York Tribune (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Menace of the Chains (1924), by Millis Advertising Company (page images at LOC)

• Magazine Reader Count for County, State, and Nation (New York: The Bureau, 1949), by Magazine Advertising Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magazine Rate and Circulation Study (c1948), by Association of National Advertisers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Joe Camel With Feathers: How the NRA With Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids (Washington: Violence Policy Center, 1997; two appendices omitted), by Susan Glick and Josh Sugarmann (HTML at vpc.org)

• The Adams Articles, Published in the New York Tribune During the Months of January and February Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen, With the Incidental Advertisements (New York: Trow Press, ca. 1915), by Samuel Hopkins Adams, ed. by New York Tribune (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Art of Decorating Show Windows and Displaying Merchandise (fifth edition; Chicago: Merchants Record Co., c1924), ed. by Lewis A. Rogers, contrib. by Charles A. Tracy (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Workplace to Workspace: Using Email Lists to Work Together (1998), by Maureen James and Liz Rykert (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Gender Advertisements (as originally published in Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1976), by Erving Goffman (PDF files here at Penn)

• Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), by Naa Oyo A. Kwate (PDF files with commentary at JSTOR)

• Gender Advertisements (as originally published in Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1976), by Erving Goffman (PDF files here at Penn)

• The Television Commercial: How to Create and Produce Effective TV Advertising (revised and enlarged edition; New York: Hastings House, c1957), by Harry Wayne McMahan (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• The Television Commercial: How to Create and Produce Effective TV Advertising (first edition; New York: Hastings House, c1954), by Harry Wayne McMahan (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Television Status and Trends (New York: Association of National Advertisers, 1949), by Alfred N. Goldsmith (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Selling and Promoting Radio and Television (New York: Printers' Ink Pub. Co, c1954), by Jacob A. Evans (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Unleashing the Ideavirus, by Seth Godin, contrib. by Malcolm Gladwell (PDF at dropbox.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.