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No caption (sign store going out of business)
No caption (sign store going out of business)

No caption (sign store going out of business)

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1952
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 9 × 8 7/16 in. (22.8 × 21.4 cm) Sheet: 9 × 8 7/16 in. (22.8 × 21.4 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1963
No caption ("Whistler's Father" displayed in a liquor store window, with a sign above reading "Remember Father's Day June 21st") )
No caption ("Whistler's Father" displayed in a liquor store window, with a sign above reading "Remember Father's Day June 21st")
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Alan Dunn
1970
No Caption ("NO ELECTIONEERING" sign near T.V. stores.)
No Caption ("NO ELECTIONEERING" sign near T.V. stores.)
Alan Dunn
1951
No Caption (sign in store window "Only 70 Shopping Days Before Easter")
No Caption (sign in store window "Only 70 Shopping Days Before Easter")
Alan Dunn
1950
No caption (store window sign "Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!")
No caption (store window sign "Buy Now! Last Chance to Buy at Low Prices Before the Recession is Finally Over!")
Alan Dunn
1961
No Caption (Fur-store window and sign painter)
No Caption (Fur-store window and sign painter)
Alan Dunn
1951
"I was strolling along, minding my own business, when down came this U.F. O and out came two huge white monsters."
"I was strolling along, minding my own business, when down came this U.F. O and out came two huge white monsters."
Alan Dunn
1969
Sign in store window "Buy now at the accepted 3.2% inflation rate the dollar won't buy anything at all by 1998".
Sign in store window "Buy now at the accepted 3.2% inflation rate the dollar won't buy anything at all by 1998".
Alan Dunn
c 1966
"My husband doesn't know it yet, but here after I'm going to help him in a business way."
"My husband doesn't know it yet, but here after I'm going to help him in a business way."
Alan Dunn
1927
"Don't worry. It's perfectly safe if used as directed. Just don't breathe the vapor or spraymist, avoid contact with the skin, keep the mist from your eyes, do not spray near a fire or open flame, store under a hundred and twenty degrees and out of the sun's rays, keep the can out of reach of children, and do not incinerate or puncture."
"Don't worry. It's perfectly safe if used as directed. Just don't breathe the vapor or spraymist, avoid contact with the skin, keep the mist from your eyes, do not spray near a fire or open flame, store under a hundred and twenty degrees and out of the sun's rays, keep the can out of reach of children, and do not incinerate or puncture."
Alan Dunn
c 1966
"Make a big noise going out; after all, he's probably trying to avoid you more than you, him."
"Make a big noise going out; after all, he's probably trying to avoid you more than you, him."
Alan Dunn
1948
"You are not going to bring that out here!"
"You are not going to bring that out here!"
Alan Dunn
1953
"You take the wires out first, silly.", "I bet she don't lunch at the Colony in these!", "Got a quarter on you Mary Lou to save me going upstairs?"
"You take the wires out first, silly.", "I bet she don't lunch at the Colony in these!", "Got a quarter on you Mary Lou to save me going upstairs?"
Alan Dunn
1948