All over the city, ads can still be seen that were first painted in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Often they sell goods that no longer exist (horse carriage repairs) or promote once-famous but extinct brands that recall a simpler time (Uneeda Biscuits).
Jump, 37 at the time he began shooting fading ad murals, felt a kinship with the images because in 1984 he had been diagnosed with HIV, at the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic, when most people with the disease soon died. “I am photographing these images that I never expected to live so long, and I never expected to live so long,” he told us. – Jim Edwards
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R.H. Macy’s Uptown Stables at West 148th Street, Harlem. Ad circa 1900s. Macy's would have used the stables to make delivery orders telegraphed to it from the 34th Street store.
