Billboard for La Touraine coffee
Dateabout 1920
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 3 1/8 x 5 7/8in. (8 x 15cm)
DescriptionAn automobile is driven along a street beside trolley tracks toward a bridge. Utility poles and wires line the street. Advertising signs at the left read: "La Touraine / Coffee / You might / as well have / the best. / It's the bean." Behind the sign, the roofs of one or two buildings are visible. A smokestack is in the distance.
Object number1994.162.376
NotesSubject Note: This photograph was taken for the United Advertising Corporation of New Haven to document the placement of their billboards.On View
Not on view