Archives Photos of the Day: Advertisements

By Rebecca Bollwitt
July 25th, 2010, 4:30 PM (PT)

posted in: history, photos, vancouver | tags: archives photo, history, photography

Browsing the Vancouver Archives online photograph database I kept coming across old advertisements from around Vancouver. Posters, billboards, and painted cars. I thought it would be fun to do a roundup including commercials of our city’s past.

1946, Archives Item#: CVA 1184-2346

1948, Photographer: Jack Lindsay, Archives Item#: CVA 1184-3139

1934, PhotographeR: Stuart Thomson, Archives Item#: CVA 99-4672

1935, Photographer: Stuart Thomson, Archives Item#: CVA 99-4726

1945, Photographer: Don Coltman, Archives Item#: CVA 586-4089

Should you have any suggestions or ideas for an archives photo theme, please feel free to drop a note in the comments.

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