Showing posts with label Woodsboro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Woodsboro. Show all posts

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Rosebud Salve Company (Woodsboro, Maryland)

The Rosebud Salve Company, a soap manufacturing company in Woodsboro, Maryland is known for their mail-order soap products.  The company has been operating out of the same building for over 121 years.
Panorama of the Rosebud Salve Company headquarters in
Woodsboro, Maryland.  The company was established in 1895.

Ordinary street shot of the Rosebud Salve Company headquarters
in Woodsboro, Maryland.

"Home of Rosebud Salve" sign, painted on the side of the
Rosebud Salve Company building in Woodsboro, Maryland.


Thursday, September 1, 2016

Welcome!

Welcome to my new photography project blog for Photography III at Hood College, titled "Sign-O-Rama: A Collection of Vintage/Modern Signs and Architecture."  Here is the first set of photographs in this project:

Vintage Woodsboro Liquors Sign 

Vintage neon "Liquors" sign outside of Woodsboro Liquors in
Woodsboro, Maryland.
Vintage T.R. Saylor Hardware Storefront (w/Kem-Tone Paint window sign)

Storefront of the now-defunct T.R. Saylor/True Value Hardware
store in Walkersville, Maryland (with vintage Kem-Tone Paint
window sign).  The store closed its doors in the Summer of 2015.

Kem-Tone Paint Sign (Angled Close-Up)
Angled close-up of the vintage Kem-Tone Paint sign in the window of
the former T.R. Saylor/True Value Hardware store in Walkersville,
Maryland.  According to the American Chemical Society, Kem-Tone
was a brand of interior paint made by Sherwin-Williams. 


To all subscribers/readers who have stumbled across this new blog, thanks for coming!  Be on the lookout for more photographs of vintage/modern signs and buildings.  

All the best,
Chris Hamby
Senior, Hood College (and classic film blog writer/creator of "Silver Screen Reflections")
@chrishambyfilms