vintage mural ads & other signage by Frank H. Jump & friends
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
According to the New York Neon Blog:
Nathan Salzman came to the United States from Russia just before the First World War, around the time of his 20th birthday. He identified himself as a “sign writer” in the 1920 census. By 1930 he had established his own shop.
© Frank H. Jump
1913 Ad H W Gossard Maternity Corset Abdominal Support
Courtesy of Bobbins & Bombshells
The movement of factories to find lower labor costs is not something that started when shoes began to be made in China. In 1920 Gossard opened a factory in Ishpeming, Michigan that eventually employed 600 women, Once it was the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (and, to a much greater extent, the American south) that offered a ready supply of inexpensive non-unionized labor. I knew a woman who came to the U.P. in the late 1940s to organize the workers for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. After a long strike, she succeeded and the plant continued for another 20 years after that, finally closing in 1966. There’s a nice exhibit about “The Gossard” in the Cliffs Mine Museum in Ishpeming and a brief article about it here. Best quote:”You were a forward thinking woman if you wore a front-lacing corset.” – Comment from Yooperann on Chicago Man’s Flickr Photostream
© Frank H. Jump
Produced from 1898-1901. A white colored jean corset with coutil bone casings made by R & G (Roth & Goldschmidt) in South Norwalk, Connecticut. This era of corsets saw transitional styles between the Victorian hourglass corset and the straight fronted corset of the Edwardian era. Corsets from this turn of the century time period often have straight or slightly curved busks foreshadowing the S bend style yet still retain an hourglass shape.¹
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