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About this book

A Treatise on Electric Sign Building in Picture Form, A & W Electric Sign Co., 1915. Building electric signs — in pictures — back in print.

The electric sign was the wonder of the 1910s streetscape, and this 1915 treatise shows how they were built — in picture form, as the title promises: the construction, the wiring, the letters, illustrated for the trade by a working sign company. 57 pages of the new industry's practical knowledge, drawn not described.

For the sign historian it documents the moment the trade went electric; for the collector of sign ephemera it is a scarce illustrated piece from a working shop. A fascinating bridge between the painted sign and the neon age — the missing link on the shelf.

The 1915 electric sign builder's picture book, reproduced complete.

Details: PDF digital download, 58 pages.

⚠️ Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a digital edition scanned from a historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1915 printing, and the quality of your download reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1915 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1915 manual with all its character intact, you're in the right place.