What were signs grocery stores 100 years ago

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This article will tell and show you how at the beginning of the last century looked signage at the grocery store. Some of them are published for the first time on the Internet, because I found them in a cookbook in the library. Maybe I'm wrong, but have not yet found some signs on the Internet for free access. So that the material to some extent consider exclusive.

So, shops and stores where you can buy something from products that have long existed. A few centuries, at least.

And in order to attract buyers, and to designate the place where these same products are sold, signs are needed. And today we will focus on those that were 100 years ago. Well, give or take a couple of years.

Of course, they are different from today's. At least the fact that they had to be produced manually, because no special equipment was not there. Painted signboard painters did it first on plywood, wood, but these signs were short-lived.

A sign of a grocery store. The beginning of the twentieth century
A sign of a grocery store. The beginning of the twentieth century

Later, when there was an iron bluing technology, they were doing on the metal. One well-known artists to paint signs for shops, was Alexander Shevchenko. For example, one of his works:

Shevchenko. 1919
Shevchenko. 1919

Here, incidentally, is another sign store wine, rather it is a warehouse:

A sign of the wholesale wine warehouse in Moscow. Author Unknown signage
A sign of the wholesale wine warehouse in Moscow. Author Unknown signage

But this was a sign near the entrance to the fish store (simply, succinctly, without words and images):

1920
1920

tea drinkers looked into the shop here with such a sign:

Here you can buy loose tea
Here you can buy loose tea

Here, too, selling tea:

By the way at the beginning of the last century lured shoppers to stores not only the signs. Even then, there were posters and leaflets. Here, for example, looked like advertising products Mosselprom:

In the photo is difficult to see, but in the lower left corner with respect to this advertisement says:

Advertising Mosselprom. Text Mayakovsky. The artist Alexander Rodchenko. 1923

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