Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City, February 27, 1929: 'The Singing Fool' (motion picture), Armour Star Ham, Buick Cars, Miami (City of Miami Chamber of Commerce), The Roosevelt (car). Also 2 empty billboards.
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Language
English
Local Subjects
Advertising--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Billboards--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Signs and signboards--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Streets--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs
Negatives (photographic)
Black-and-white negatives
Note
Collection Note: The photographs in this collection were taken by the New York City photographic company Drucker & Baltes for the General Outdoor Advertising Company; a billboard company formed in 1925 through the merger of the Fulton Group and Thomas Cusack Company.