Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
99.21.017
Accession#:
99.21
Credit Line:
Donated by Mary Ann Parke.
Object Name:
Sign, Instructional
Title:
Fish License Sign "Fishing Licenses Sold Here"
Date:
1950
Year Range from:
1940
Year Range to:
1960
Description:
Aluminum sheet metal sign. Two 0.1875 inch diameter holes punched along top edge for hanging. Soluble paint indicates sign used indoors. 25 Faint pencil lines about and below each line of script from drafting.
Inscription: Painted on aluminum sheet, water soluble paint:
"FISHING LICENSES" in black 3.5 inch capital letters.
"SOLD HERE" in red 4.25 inch upper and lower case letters.
Black trim around edge of sign is 0.25 inch wide.
Notes:
Collected and preserved by Thomas S. Parke.
Sign likely saved for aluminum sheet metal. Sign possibly left over from sales of Territory of Alaska commercial fisheries licensing. T.S. Parke was employed by Territorial Dept. of Taxation and traveled through Southeast selling and checking commercial fish licenses during the 1950s.
Search Terms:
Fisheries
Fishing
Business
Store
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