Sign Collection (#3)

Hotel No Snoring Poster
circa 1926: A handwritten sign tacked onto the wall of a grubby hotel room warns the occupant that snoring is forbidden. " Vistors must not snore

Betting On Dogs
circa 1930: A man placing a bet with a bookmaker at a greyhound race track. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

London Grocer
J.Collins grocery shop in London, 1928. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tenement In Perth
16th April 1955: A narrow tenement building in Bridgend, Perth, the Fair City, once the capital of Scotland. Perthshire is a renowned as a fertile agricultural area

Off Duty Usherette
circa 1954: A young woman talks to a boy friend after her evenings work as a cinema usherette. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7045 - Usherette - unpub

Horse Race Fair
April 1925: A dwarf posing on a funfair ride with a group of people on Newmarket 2, 000 Guinea Race Day. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

A Convicts Home
1877: Former policeman Mr Bayliss runs a Victorian dining room for ex-convicts in Drury Lane, London serving basins of leg of beef soup

Food Scramble
circa 1930: A little boy holding a hare and a marrow next to a sign warning of the coming food scramble. The Hackney and District Smallholders Society advise all those in favour of continuing

Piccadilly Lights
1927: Advertising signs at night in Leicester Square, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bright Lights
1939: Neon signs illuminate the buildings in the Charing Cross area of Londons Trafalgar Square, behind the silhouette of one of Landseers lions. (Photo by Stanley Sherman/London Express/Getty Images)

New Gallery Cinema
1929: The New Gallery Cinema, complete with doorman, on Regent Street, London, showing Movietone Follies of 1929. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Here It Is
April 1952: A large neon arrow sign outside the Ranchinn restaurant, bar, casino and coffee shop in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Hamilton
circa 1920: A street in Hamilton, a city in Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Coat of arms copperplate 17th century Beale and Palmer
This image is from a copperplate engraving, and shows part of a roll of arms from Richard Blomes (Britannia), an atlas published in 1673

Coat of arms 17th century Hill and Cavell
This image is from a copperplate engraving, and shows part of a roll of arms from Richard Blomes (Britannia), an atlas published in 1673

Coat of arms 17th century Bulstrode and Gilbert
This image is from a copperplate engraving, and shows part of a roll of arms from Richard Blomes (Britannia), an atlas published in 1673

Coat of arms copperplate 17th century Panton and Meggs
This image is from a copperplate engraving, and shows part of a roll of arms from Richard Blomes (Britannia), an atlas published in 1673

Coat of arms copperplate 17th century Fleming and Jenkins
This image is from a copperplate engraving, and shows part of a roll of arms from Richard Blomes (Britannia), an atlas published in 1673

Coat of arms 17th century Astry and Davison
This image is from a copperplate engraving, and shows part of a roll of arms from Richard Blomes (Britannia), an atlas published in 1673

Coat of arms copperplate 17th century Greenville and Langham
This image is from a copperplate engraving, and shows part of a roll of arms from Richard Blomes (Britannia), an atlas published in 1673

Hitching a Ride
circa 1928: Bathing beauties hitch a ride in California. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Halifax Mercury
Close-up of a Halifax Mercury showing how the nose has been modified to house the night fighting radar equipment. The plane is being used to demonstrate the latest radio

Original Anvil
1930: The original anvil on which marrying Joe Paisley would set his Bible when performing weddings in the blacksmiths shop at Gretna Green

Farrier At Work
1926: Blacksmiths at work at their smithy, which also has a petrol pump, at Wood Green. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

A neon sign that reads ?US 66?
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"Neon Horoscope Reading sign in Los Angeles, CA"
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Hatton Gardens
circa 1930: The gold trading establishment of Gladwin Ltd and F Ballard & Co in Hatton Gardens, the jewellers district of London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Estonian Chapel
circa 1955: A stone chapel in rural Estonia near Uuemoisa. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

No Vacancies
A No Vacancies sign outside the Spanish Trail Motel in Las Vegas. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Deganwy
circa 1955: A street and pub in Deganwy a small town on the Conway estuary, North Wales.The estuary and mountains are in the background. (Photo by Woolverton/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Culture Clash
circa 1955: A scene of east meets west in San Franciscos Chinatown, where a poster advertising American cigarettes stands behind baskets of the traditional Chinese soup ingredients of kelp

TV Detectives
31st October 1956: A team of technicians head towards their GPO Television Detector van, a vehicle armed with three aerials designed to detect the signal of a television in use

Orleans Street
circa 1955: Two women walking along a pavement on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, USA. (Photo by Berni Schoenfield/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Clinic
circa 1930: Mothers in Paraguay wait with their children for a free consultation with the government doctors. (Photo by Kurt Severin/Samuel Bourne/Getty Images)

Greek Town
circa 1947: A signpost outside the town of Kalabaka in central Greece. The town nestles against the sheer cliffs of the Meteora Mountains. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Street sign at Riverside Drive and Sutton Place, New York City
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Tree with sign on its trunk
branches, concept, conservation, day, ecology, environment, fog, foggy, forest, grove, haze, hazy, nature, nobody, outdoor, rural, sale, sign, sold, text, tree, winter, Henri Silberman, 86068726

Antique illustration of astronomy constellations

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Zodiac and astrological icons and symbols collection

Two girls walking to school, boy sitting on lunchbox. (Photo by H
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Two girls walking to school, boy sitting on lunchbox

Mobile Film Crew
April 1929: Cameramen filming from a Rolls Royce in Piccadilly, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Demolition Man
circa 1900: A man works on the demolition of the Adelphi in London, which had been designed by Robert Adam. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Fox Movietone Studios
Stage 6 at the Fox Movietone Studios, in West Los Angeles, California, 1929. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Beer Barrel
A giant barrel of beer, part of a demonstration against prohibition in America. (Photo by Henry Guttmann Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nairobi Airport
circa 1950: A man watches aircraft at Nairobi airport, next to a crossroads of Africa signpost. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Cures For Sale
circa 1950: Samaritan volunteers pull carts containing lame people about the town of Lourdes, which is replete with shops selling souvenirs and a variety of mementos

Old Spurrows House
circa 1950: Old Spurrows House in Ipswich, a fine old house with superb plaster work and attic gables dating from 1567. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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