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J. Josephs, House, Sign, & Fancy Painter

March 2023
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For those who might have thought us guilty of exaggeration when we said that the gaudy frontispiece of our February, 1975, issue was a pretty accurate representation of Joseph Josephs’ sign shop, here is a photograph of that remarkable edifice.

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