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$1-$50

Keeping the lights on 
Small donations like this help pay for basic operating costs of the museum, such as storage and transportation.

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If you’ve been on our tours, you’ve heard us talk about our growing ephemera and book library. Donations at this level not only help us grow our collection of print materials, advertising objects, small signs, and more, but they also let us upgrade our technical equipment to digitize and document what we already have. Digitization is a large project that requires a lot of time and effort, and the task is far less daunting once we secure top-quality equipment to get the job done. 

People often ask how we get our signs. While some are graciously donated to the museum having been already removed from the building they were on, the majority of signs we get we take down ourselves after conversations with the business or building owners. Sometimes this means two of us getting on a ladder, removing some screws, taking down the sign, all in a few minutes. And sometimes it means a crew of over five people on rented boom lifts over several days in challenging conditions. Sign saves can get pricey quickly. Large donations directly help us save signs from around the tri-state area, allowing us to worry less about the monetary burden of the sign save cost and focus on saving the best signs possible for the collection.

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