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Ilse Bing, Paris, 1952

New York, 1950s

André Zucca, Paris, 1943

Nina Leen, Berlin, 1953

Paris, 1955

Tel Aviv, 1930s

Carl Weinrother, Berlin, 1932

Brassaï, La colonne Morris, Paris, 1932

Advertising columns or Morris columns (French: colonne Morris, German: Litfaßsäule) are cylindrical outdoor sidewalk structures with a characteristic style that are used for advertising and other purposes. They are common throughout Germany including its capital Berlin, where the first 100 columns were installed in 1855.

In France, the columns are called colonnes Morris after Gabriel Morris, a printer, who held the concession for advertising in 1868.

* In the film The Third Man, Harry Lime (played by Orson Welles) uses one of these columns as an escape route to the sewer system under Vienna.

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