February, 2013:

Lowlands Correspondent: Gaia Son – Stoom Boek en Steendrukkerij – Steam Book & Stone Lithography – Leiden, NL

Feb 18th, 2013

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Description: Steam Printing, shop and apartment–

Between 1889 and 1890 this steam printing business with associated store and attic apartment was build. Printing (1889) as well as shop (1890) were built by Eduard IJdo designed by architect D. Veilbrief. The most representative facade of the store with apartment is built close to the then very common Dutch Neo-Renaissance style. The other facades have no particular stylistic characteristics. Parts of the store interior are in original condition and in close stylistically to the exterior. The Highland Kerkgracht oriented retail property is part of the protected townscape. – National Monuments Website – Rijksmonumenten NL

Lowlands Correspondents: Gaia Son & Jamie van Loon – Robes et Confections – Nieuwe Rijn, Leiden NL

Feb 17th, 2013

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On Flickr – Jan Sluijter, Mark van Mullem
Dutch Tegels – Tile Ads – Art Nouveau

Featured Fade – Sealy – Mattresses – Lexington & 32, NYC – Noah Salty Pardo

Feb 16th, 2013

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Greenwich Village Ad Space Wall – Greenwich & Seventh Ave. So.

Feb 15th, 2013

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This wall ad has usually been occupied by Marc Jacobs. Apparently they are building yet another hi-rise in the Village and this wall has been scraped to the brick exposing some of the underlying ads from who knows when.

Zeller Lacquer – Irvington, NJ

Feb 14th, 2013

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Metal Finishing: Preparation, Electroplating, Coating, Volume 19 Jan- December 1921 © Google Books

Lowlands Correspondent – Gaia Son with Assistant Jamie Van Loon – Van Houten’s Cacao – De Beste – Leiden, NL

Feb 13th, 2013

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CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – Wikipedia NL

Coenraad Johannes van Houten & Casparus van Houten Sr. – Wikipedia

Tee-Vee Electric Co – T-V – Radio – Antenna Installations – Orange, NJ

Feb 12th, 2013

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Old Person’s Face Street Art – Gent, BE

Feb 11th, 2013

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Crédit National c. 1919 – Paris, FR – July 2010

Feb 10th, 2013

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Credit National – Pour faciliter la reparation des dommages causes par la guerre.
National Credit – To facilitate the repair of damage caused by the war.

The national credit was a French bank created by special law on October 10, 1919 at the nexus of the private sphere and the sphere of influence of the French State involved in the payment of war reparations and financing of small and medium enterprises. It has always been in the private sector and its employees have never had the status of civil servants, despite employment contracts and organization benefitting the public. – Wikipedia (FR)

The BFCE (French Foreign Trade Bank) founded Natixis in the spirit of privatization with a merger in 2006 of Natexis and Ixis. Apparently I caught this sign after the Natixis sign was taken down. May 2008 © Google Maps