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DON'T DYE HERE laundromat sign: POSITIVELY NO TINTING OR DYEING PERMITTED IN THESE MACHINES! (AI reproduction, not the original)

DON’T DYE HERE

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The signs, as AI reproductions. Tap one for its page, photos of the originals and the record.

DON'T DYE HERE laundromat sign: POSITIVELY NO TINTING OR DYEING PERMITTED IN THESE MACHINES! (original)
Original. Yellow series at Rob’s Stop ‘N’ Wash, 54 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn. Photo posted 1 January 2008 by amarilla on the Museum of Laundry blog.
DON'T DYE HERE laundromat sign: POSITIVELY NO TINTING OR DYEING PERMITTED IN THESE MACHINES! (AI reproduction, not the original)
AI reproduction (Grok) made from the photo at left. Not the original artwork; details may differ.
DON'T DYE HERE laundromat sign: POSITIVELY NO TINTING OR DYEING PERMITTED IN THESE MACHINES! (original)
American Coin-Op, May 1961, p. 48. Marked © 1960, no signature.
DON'T DYE HERE laundromat sign: POSITIVELY NO TINTING OR DYEING PERMITTED IN THESE MACHINES! (original)
Blue series, in a home laundry room; from a Facebook post.
DON'T DYE HERE laundromat sign: POSITIVELY NO TINTING OR DYEING PERMITTED IN THESE MACHINES! (original)
With HOWDY NEIGHBOR in the Felton, California laundromat. Felton Homes and History blog, 2013.

Registration: K58996, 15 Mar 1960
Figure (catalog wording): Comic Dracula wearing top hat
Rule on the sign: POSITIVELY NO TINTING OR DYEING PERMITTED IN THESE MACHINES!
Seen: Coin-Op ads May to Sep 1961; Brooklyn; Rensselaer; Felton CA; Alabama (blue); Park Slope 2019

The record

The 1960 Catalog of Copyright Entries lists this design under the claimant LAUNDESIGNS. The entry reads, word for word:

Don’t dye here. Sign display. [Comic Dracula wearing top hat] Print. Author of the print: Joseph Schorr. © Laundesigns; 15Mar60; K58996.

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, 1960, Works of Art (Class K). Documented
Scan of the 1960 Catalog of Copyright Entries page listing the Laundesigns sign displays, including DON'T DYE HERE
The Laundesigns entries in the 1960 Catalog of Copyright Entries, via the Internet Archive.

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