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Advertising display at livestock sales hall, Ames, Iowa

Artwork Tombstone
ArtistRussell Lee (American, 1903–1986)
TitleAdvertising display at livestock sales hall, Ames, Iowa
DateDecember 1936
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 9/16 × 9 3/4 in. (16.6 × 24.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 10 1/16 in. (20.3 × 25.5 cm)
Credit LineHenry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number79.200.XX.1.45
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A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a wall covered in signs advertising local businesses. Such businesses include a cafe, car dealership, bank, shoe store, lumber company, truck operator, grocery store and market, cleaners, auction house, among others.

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a wall covered in signs advertising local businesses. Such businesses include a cafe, car dealership, bank, shoe store, lumber company, truck operator, grocery store and market, cleaners, auction house, among others.

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"Advertising display at livestock sales hall, Ames, Iowa | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=79.200.XX.1.45