ORIENT DELIGHTS ORIENT'S MOST FAMOUS SWEETS
Smithsonian American Art Museum

ORIENT DELIGHTS ORIENT'S MOST FAMOUS SWEETS

Unidentified · ca. 1920

housepaint on plywood
Smithsonian American Art Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Smithsonian American Art Museum

This sign was probably painted for a candy factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. Images from the Middle East became fashionable in the early twentieth century, and the domed building on this sign, which resembles the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, reinforces the idea that the candy actually came from the “Orient.”

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