Sign

Title:

Sawyer Pictures

Object Name:

Sign

Object ID:

1990.073

Creator:

Kalasign Company -- Manufacturer

Place of Origin:

Kalamazoo, MI

Date:

1920-1930

Description:

Sign, cardboard, painted green with gold stencilled lettering: "Sawyer Pictures". Gold border. Green string for hanging. Folding cardboard support on back, for standing on a sales counter. Maker's imprint on back: "THIS IS ONE OF THE FAMOUS / KALASIGNS / Done by HAND in genuine OIL PAINTS, / and BRONZE pigment....... / KALASIGN COMPANY / OF AMERICA / KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN / Designed and Sold By / H.C. WITT / Little Bldg., 80 Boylston St., Room 1107, BOSTON, MASS. / Process Patented January 1918".

Material:

Paper
Cardboard

Dimensions:

H-4.6 W-19.5 D-0.1 inches

Provenance:

Sign made to be used by one of the dealers who sold Sawyer Pictures, hand-colored framed photographs produced by Charles and Harold Sawyer in Concord, NH. The business was later acquired by Harold F. Yeaton.

Credit Line:

Gift of Harold F. Yeaton

People:

Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)

Subjects:

Signs, Photographic studios, Photographic prints