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In order to keep with copyright laws I put all these pictures on one page; I pulled them off the public pages at yahoo.com and I have included the publication information with the pictures. A great collection here of warning signs. |
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A sign attached to the barbed wire fence which encloses a military training zone warns of unexploded shells. Purbecks, Dorset, England. |
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A warning sign along Iguacu Falls Road warns drivers of the speed limit with a cartoon of a leopard flattened by the wheels of a car. |
National
Park Road Sign |
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Landmine Warning
Sign Along a Road Near Stanley, East Falkland Island A land mine warning sign, depicting a skull and crossbones, stands upon a roadside near Stanley. East Falkland Island. © www.corbis.com/Bryan Knox; Papilio |
| A moose crossing street sign warns traffic along a rural road in Kosta, Sweden. | Moose
Crossing Street Sign |
Gazelle
Crossing |
Sign in Israel A sign warns drivers to watch for gazelles on a road in Israel. |
| A road sign in Hungary prohibiting bicycles, tractors, and horse drawn vehicles from using a stretch of road. | Hungarian
Roadside Warning Sign |
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A biligual warning sign cautions people against eating and drinking. Luxor, Egypt. |
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A warning that looters will be shot is spray painted on a wall in downtown Homestead, after the town was torn apart by Hurricane Andrew. Florida. |
Warning
for Looters |
Shark
Warning Sign |
A sign on an Australian beach, warning swimmers of the dangers of shark attacks. |
| A sign in Sarajevo
warns citizens about Serbian snipers during the Yugoslavian Civil War. |
Sniper Warning
Sign |
A Tank Warning
Sign |
A German sign warns tanks to keep in forest area during the NATO war games in southern West Germany. |
| A sign posted by the Mendham Township Conservation Commission warns park users not to litter or hunt within the park boundaries. | Conservation Warning
Sign |
Passenger
Warning on Airplane |
Passenger Warning
on Airplane A warning sign in one |
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Polluted Water
Warning Sign A warning sign |
Polluted
Water Warning Sign |
Warning
Sign at Vineyard |
A warning sign tells of the presence of the gaseous pesticide aluminum phosphide in a Kern County vineyard California. |
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sign warning people to stay away from the polar bears and to report sightings in Churchill. Manitoba, Canada. |
Polar
Bear Warning Sign  |
Dangerous
Current Warning Sign |
A warning sign and a red flag indicate a high surf on Sunset Beach. |
| Warning Sign at Fermilab A warning sign at the above-ground section of the particle accelerator at Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois. | Warning
Sign at Fermilab |
Vermont
Sign Warning For Moose |
A sign on a highway warns motorists to watch for moose in the snowy and wooded roads of Vermont. |
| A sign warns of hazardous waste contamination at a school in Love Canal. Love Canal was evacuated in 1978 when hazardous levels of toxic chemical waste were found to cause birth defects and illnesses. Near Niagara Falls, New York. | Warning
Sign in Love Canal |
Warning
Sign in Love Canal |
A sign warns of asbestos contamination at a site in Love Canal. Love Canal was evacuated in 1978 when hazardous levels of toxic chemical waste were found to cause birth defects and illnesses. Near Niagara Falls, New York. |
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A bird perches on a fence below a sign cautioning people that the horses with bite, Lexington, Kentucky. |
Bird
Below Warning Sign |
Land
Mine Warning Sign |
A red sign warns of the presence of a land mine that will later be removed from the ground. Bosnia. |
| A sign onthe ground warns hunters of a pig snaring project underway in a certain area in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. There is a state program to hunt feral pigs as they are a threat to native plants and animals. | Warning
Sign on Ground |
Mine
Warning Sign in Jerusalem |
A sign in Hebrew warns of mines in a plot of land in or near Jerusalem. |
| A
sign by the Step Pyramid warns people against climbing the pyramid.
Saqqara, Egypt. © www.corbis.com/Dave Bartruff |
Warning
Sign by Pyramid |
Sign
Warning of Polluted Water |
A warning sign
with a skull and crossbones near polluted water in Valentine, Louisiana. © www.corbis.com/Jonathan Blair |
| A
warning signs near the concentration camp's entrance warns prisoners
of the high voltage electric fences. © www.corbis.com/Ira Nowinski |
Warning
Sign at Gate Entrance  |
Pyramid
of Zoser and Warning Sign |
A sign in English
and Arabic, warning people not to climb pryamids, stands near the
step Pyramid of Zoser. Saqqara, Egypt. © www.corbis.com/The Purcell Team |
| Volcanoes
National Park warn of hot lava surfaces and hazardous gases. © www.corbis.com/Michael S. Yamashita |
Warning
Sign at Volcanic Vents Signs in Hawaii  |
Warning
Sign on Studio Door |
A sign warns people
not to open door when the red light is on at the Zoetrope television
studio. © www.corbis.com/Henry Diltz |
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A sign in the commander's office of the U.S.S. L.Y. Spear warns against
using marijuana on board the ship, or anywhere in the Navy. © www.corbis.com/Yogi, Inc. |
Marijuana
Warning Sign Aboard a Ship |
Sign
Warning of Falling Coconuts |
A sign on Molokai
reads "Kapuaiwa Grove, Danger, Falling Coconuts, Enter at Your Own
Risk!" © www.corbis.com/Michael S. Yamashita |
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Lapari Landfill, a toxic waste dump, still pollutes a town lake even
after a clean up. © www.corbis.com/Leif Skoogfors |
Warning
Signs at Contaminated Lake |
Warning
Sign on Alcatraz Island |
A sign on Alcatraz
Island warns that people caught helping prisoners to escape are subject
to prosecution and imprisonment. © www.corbis.com/Ted Streshinsky |
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Signs warn drivers to be wary of camels, wombats and kangaroos crossing
the Eyre Highway which runs across the barren Nullarbor Plain of Western
Australia. © www.corbis.com/Howard Davies |
Animal
Warning Signs by the Eyre Highway |
Warning
Sign on Aran Islands, Ireland |
A sign warns against
low-flying aircraft on the Aran Islands. The islands are barren outcrops
of carboniferous limestone, an extension of the Burren, lying a few
miles off the coast in Galway Bay. The tiny fields of the islands,
bordered by high dry-stone walls created to get rid of the stones
in the rocky soil, are made fertile by a mixture of sea-weed and peat
which islanders have carried into the fields over the centuries © www.corbis.com/Michael St. Maur Sheil |
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A sign warns against swimming on Makah Beach after an oil spill on
the Olympic Peninsula. Washington, USA. © www.corbis.com/Joel W. Rogers |
Oil
Spill Warning on Makah Beach |
Danger
Sign Warning of Contaminated Water |
A sign warns people
to keep out of sewage contaminated water at Point Loma. The main sewer
line that feeds the sewage outfall just off Point Loma broke and spilled
millions of gallons of sewage into the ocean. © www.corbis.com/Rick Doyle |
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An old sign warns of the nearby electrified fence surrounding the
buildings at Auschwitz, part of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi
concentration camp and extermination camp in operation during World
War II. An estimated 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 prisoners died while held
at the camp. © www.corbis.com/Michael St. Maur Sheil |
Old
Sign Warning of Electrifed Fence |
Warning
Sign at Varadharaja Perumal Temple, India |
A sign beside
decorative wall carvings warns non-Hindus not to pass any further
into the Varadharaja Perumal Temple at the sacred city of Kanchipuram,
also known as Siva Vishnu Kanchi. India. © www.corbis.com/Jeremy Horner |
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Oil washes up along the sandy shores of Weston-Super-Mare. A sign
warns people to keep off of the contaminated beach. Avon, England,
UK. © www.corbis.com/Ian Harwood; Ecoscene |
Warning
Sign on Oil-Polluted Beach, UK |
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Sign Warning of
Mines Stands in Field, Cambodia © www.corbis.com/Richard Ellis; Cordaiy Photo Library Ltd. |
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A sign outside the door of the Central Intelligenge Agency's Fusion
Center reads "Life Magazine Photographer Shooting in the Area." The
Fusion Center is the C.I.A.'s counterterrorism operation. © www.corbis.com/Roger Ressmeyer |
Sign
Warning of Visitor at C.I.A. Headquarters |
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Camel Warning Sign at Entrance to Sahara, Tunisia |
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A sign warns
boats on the Crystal River to idle as they enter the Crystal River
National Wildlife Refuge where a significant population of manatees
swims below the the river's surface. |
Warning
Sign at the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge  |
A
Sign Warns of the Dangers of Dust |
1944 A British
soldier drives past a sign warning of the dangers of dust in France
in 1944. © www.corbis.com/Hulton-Deutsch Collection |
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A danger sign provides a warning of a steep embankment into the open
pit of Kennecot Copper Mine in the Oquirrh Mountains of Utah. © www.corbis.com/Scott T. Smith |
Danger
Sign at Kennecott Copper Mine |
Drunk
Driving Sign in Arizona Hills |
A drunk driving
public warning sign by a large red stone hill in Arizona. © www.corbis.com/Christine Osborne |
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A lamppost with several street signs and a pedestrian signal warning
"Don't Walk" on 42nd Street in New York City, ca. 1960s. © www.corbis.com/Roger Wood |
Pedestian
Signal on 42nd Street |
Danger
Sign on a Trail to Black's Beach |
Danger Sign on
a Trail to Black's Beach A warning sign tries to keep hikers from
taking the false trail to Black's Beach in La Jolla. © www.corbis.com/Rick Doyle |