[Photography] Advertising, nine original photographs: (1-3) Three photographs by Reclame-Bureau Julius Dickhaut All approx. 17 x 23 cm and on orig. mount w. addresses of Dickhaut and of N.V. Vereenigde Fotobureaux in Amst., ca. 1900. Showing large advertisements on (temporary) fences; one of the photos incorporates an advertisement of the Dickhaut firm itself. W. perforations in top margin for hanging threads (1 preserved). -and 6 others, incl. photos of advertorial exhibition stands of Alex Meijer Koffie en Thee (signed in pencil by photographer G. van der Wiel and w. his stamp verso) and of Automoto (speed)bicycles. Added: Duivesteijn, J. et al. Sprekende muren die verstommen. De geschilderde muurreclames in Den Haag. 1991. 52 p. (total 10)

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