Billboards Photoprint Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Mooney, Philip F.
label: Names
content: Maxwell (R. C.) Company.
topic: label: Topic
content: Sanatoriums -- 1920-1930 -- Indiana
label: Topic
content: Billboards -- 1920-1930
label: Topic
content: Advertising, Outdoor -- 1920-1930
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Philip F. Mooney of the Coca Cola Corporation, on August 13, 1987.
creator: label: Creator
content: Mooney, Philip F.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Billboards Photoprint Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents photoprints of large road-side billboards advertising products and services ranging from radios to a health sanitarium to house paints.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Large outdoor billboards advertising various products were prominent in the U.S. countryside of the 1920s as the automobile age entered its rapid development phase.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.1 Cubic feet (1 vertical box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1920's
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0284
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Don Darroch, volunteer, 1987, supervised by Archives Center staff.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1920-1930
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Eight black-and-white photoprints of large road-side billboards advertising products and services ranging from radios to a health sanitarium to house paints. Four are dated 1925-1927, but locations are not indicated except for the sanatarium (in Indiana). The prints are credited on the verso to the photographic department of R.C. Maxwell Co., Trenton, N.J., apparently a company which erected and maintained billboards, as their name appears on one of the photographed billboards.