Advertising Column
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. Advertising columns were invented by the German printer Ernst Litfaß in 1854. Therefore, they are known as ''Litfaßsäulen'' (Litfass columns). In France, the columns are called ''colonnes Morris'' after Gabriel Morris, a printer, who held the concession for advertising in 1868. They were originally built by ''La Société Fermière des Colonnes Morris''. Today, they are mostly built and maintained by the JCDecaux company, which purchased the original company in 1986. Development The idea of advertising pillars came about in order to combat rampant advertising and graffiti. Ernst Litfaß suggested that pillars should be built all over the city. People coul ...
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Colonne Morris, Paris 1910, Par Eugène Atget
Colonne () is a Communes of France, commune in the Jura (department), Jura Departments of France, department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Jura department References

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