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Burma-Shave signs

Two multicolored signs advertising Burma-Shave shaving cream. Used by the Burma-Vita Company, 1952.

Burma-Shave signs

Two multicolored signs advertising Burma-Shave shaving cream. Used by the Burma-Vita Company between 1951 and 1952.

Four of six original signs from a Burma-Shave sequential roadside advertisement. The middle sign, which would have read "out so far," is missing, as is the sixth and final sign, which would have read, "Burma Shave." Used between 1940 and 1955.

Burma-Shave signs

Series of painted wooden signs advertising Burma-Shave. Manufactured by the Burma-Vita Company, 1959.

Burma-Shave tube with box

Burma-Shave tube with box, ca. 1950s. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Scheinwerfermann, September 3, 2008.

Burma-Vita Company

Burma-Vita Company, 2318 West Chestnut Avenue, Minneapolis. Photograph by Norton & Peel, May 9, 1941.

Burning of Swede Hollow, St. Paul

After deeming Swede Hollow an unhealthy place to live, the city evicted the remaining families and burned what structures remained, 1956. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch & Pioneer Press.