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Unidentified East Baltimore street (shows painted sign in Hebrew script)
Albemarle Street, Baltimore
ca. 1915
John Dubas (fl. 1904-1973)
5x7 inch glass negative
Arthur U. Hooper Memorial Collection
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC9109
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UPDATE: @zacksholem translation of the painted sign: “The Kind You’ve Always Bought, The Signature H.A. Fletcher is On the Wrapper”
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Cool find! I could be wrong but I think people generally refer to that script as Hebrew and not Yiddish. It’d be like referring to a sign written in Spanish as Mexican.
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