© Frank H. Jump
New Jersey
colorantshistory.org's Robert Baptista Photographs Ads & Ephemera
Mail Pouch Tobacco – Dover, NJ 1991 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Edgerton Photographer – Beaumont, TX 1994 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Intercoastal Mercantile Co. 1918 – Vinton, LA 1996
Russo Auto Wreckers- Elizabeth, NJ 1994 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Aroy Building 1930 – Pt. Arthur, TX 1999 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Borne Chemical Co., Elizabeth, NJ 1997 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Goodyear Tires – Myersville, NJ 1998 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Kolsch Beer – Leverkusen, Germany 1999 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Hi Frank,
Looking at your vast site reminded me of some photos of ads on buildings I have shot in the past. Attached are some that you are welcome to post at your site.
Best Regards,
Robert Baptista
Outstanding shots Robert! -FHJ
The Borne Chemical Co. depicted in the 1997 photo was located on a 9-acre site at 632 South Front St., Elizabeth, NJ. Chemical operations began at the site around 1917. Borne Chemical used the site for the processing and blending of various types of petroleum, dyes and chemical products. When oil prices skyrocketed in the 1970s, the company began to sell recycled motor oil and auto transmission fluid. But oil prices dropped in the 1980s so the company went bankrupt and abandoned the site. The property is now listed as a Superfund site which the City of Elizabeth hopes to redevelop it after the environmental cleanup.
Robert Baptista 2/9/2008
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J.T. Mendez Agency – Jersey City, NJ
© Frank H. Jump
Sometimes when looking for fading ads I see ghosts that aren’t there. (Indian Head Dress)
Don Wiss on Brooklyn Storefronts & Newark's J. Wiss & Sons Co.
“Wiss, Founded 1848, New Jersey’s Leading Jewelers”
I was recently contacted by Don Wiss, a descendant (one of many) of the J. Wiss & Sons Jewelers & Wiss Shears families. Here is our correspondence below:
January 19, 2008
Hi Frank,
I see we both like to take pictures of buildings (my Brooklyn storefronts are famous enough that I presume you are aware of them). I came upon your site because of your picture of the Wiss building in Newark. It is a bit sad for me to see it. I have a picture from an old book, and it looked a lot better.
I just bought the Better Homes & Garden ad that you show. I gather you settled for the picture that was used to sell it. Where did your Wiss Store ad come from? My side of the family was the manufacturing side, so I have less interest in the store.My newest site is jwissandsons.com. That ad just arrived today, and I just put a PDF of it up. If you want a higher quality image of the ad I can provide one.
Don.
Dear Don-
Very pleased to meet you. Went to your site and it is voluminously entertaining. Will link your jwiss and donwiss sites & pdf to the [original] posting and post a new one about your site. Funny how similar interests and the Internet can make people cross paths. How did you stumble upon my blog? Do keep in touch and glad to have converged!
Best,
Frank
Don’s reply:
I follow what is being sold under Wiss at eBay. I buy some scissors. I look for material for my jwiss site. And mostly I send corrections for the listings to the sellers. One of the current listings (for a silver plated pinking shears which is new to me) borrowed the same text from the Smithonian’s SIRIS site that you borrowed. When I saw it I recognized it as being familiar, but I couldn’t remember where. So I searched on a string of it.
Visit the J. Wiss & Sons Co. Website!
Scissor Plan – TIME Magazine 1933
1906 ad – E-bay
