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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dec 10, 1989
Toledo Magazine
Fading Beauties: Painted signs can give us glimpses into the history and culture of our past.
byline Mary Manton White / photography Don Strayer
Dec. 27, 1989
The Kentucky Post
Urban Artwork of 'Walldogs' Slowly Fading
byline: Jack Hicks
May 14, 1994
New York Times METRO
Signs of Lost Times: Age Gives a Faded Glory to Old Advertisements Painted on the Sides of Building. byline Paul Goldberger / photographs Jack Manning
Feb 6, 2000
Peoria Journal-Star
Poetry of Gentle Decay: Lost Art of Painted Signs is Slowly Fading Away. byline Pam Adams / photographs Linda Henson
March 27, 2000
Moline Dispatch / Rock Island Argus
Fading Signs of Other Times byline Tory Brecht
March / April 2001
Preservation:The Magazine Of The National Trust For Historic Preservation
Writing On The Wall: The faded signs of decades-old advertisements hover high above the streets of Manhattan. byline Linda Cooper Bowen / photographs Sava Mitrovich
Jan 27, 2003
Baltimore Sun
If This Wall Could Talk. byline John Woestendiek / photographs Jed Kirschbaum
May 4, 2003
Houston Chronicle
Ghost Signs Bring Taste Of History To Buildings: Some Old Ads On Walls Are Being Preserved
byline Allan Turner / photographs Karl Stolleis
Sept 2007
Signs of the Times
Dogtown Reborn: Vintage Wall Signs Have Been Restored In This St. Louis Neighborhood byline Wm. Stage
May 14, 2009
The Courier – Lincoln, IL
“Ghost” Turns Up In Lincoln Alley
May 2012
Signs Of The Times
Art Meets Archaeology: A Collapsed Building Unearths an 1890s Wall Mural Story and Photos: Wm. Stage
BOOKS
Haas, Cynthia Lea, and Jeff Holder, Ghost Signs of Arkansas, University of Arkansas Press, 1997.
Russell, Laura, Colorado Wall Dogs: Ghost Signs Across Colorado, Second Edition, Simply Books, Ltd., 2006
Stage, Wm., Ghost Signs: Brick Wall Signs in America, Cincinnati, Ohio: ST Publications, 1989
Jump, Frank, Fading Ads of New York City, The History Press, 2011.
