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Wagner Sign Service was a signage and sign lettering firm based in Chicago, Ill. established in 1920 by Irwin Wagner. Album consists of black-and-white photographs of sign lettering created by Wagner Sign Service. Photographs are of actual signs promoting public service and workplace safety messages, as well as commercial signs advertising businesses and event venues including automobile dealers, banks, churches, movie theaters, real estate agencies, and restaurants. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and the Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Outdoor Advertising Archives.

Letter (ALS) to his editor or publisher, asking for paper to finish his autobiography.

TLS. Asks that the use of the club be extended to J.W. Babcock of Columbia, South Carolina.

ALS. Letter of recommendation for Doctor Forester Dexter.

ANS. Certifies that Edmund Green is suffering from inflammation in the chest.

ALS. Writes of his arrival in Germany and of the English military medical service in general.

ALS. Writes regarding an upcoming lecture, to be given by Dallinger. He proposes to speak on "Contrasts in nature: the infinitely great and the infinitely small."

ALS. In 1856 Peters writes on specimens and drawings of sea mollusks. In 1876 he writes of the work of German physician and zoologist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

ALS relating to the rewrite of Rammstedt's section of the fourth volume of the Handbuch der Chirurgie.

Holograph, signed.