Poster Art & History Photos

Posters have a long history for communications.

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Alphonse Maria Mucha Posters Salon des Cent/XXme Exposition poster by Alphonse Mucha at Nelson-Atkins Museum. Kansas City, MO Job Cigarette Paper poster by Alphonse Mucha at Nelson-Atkins Museum. Kansas City, MO St Louis World's Fair Art Nouveau poster by Alphonse Mucha issued by French government at Missouri History Museum. St Louis, MO
USA Event Posters Poster of 100th Anniversary of American Independence with Centennial Exposition scene by George Stinson at LA County Natural History Museum. Los Angeles, CA San Francisco Guild of Arts & Crafts poster by Arthur Mathews at Oakland Museum of California. Oakland, CA Cowboy on Texas Centennial Exposition poster at Bullock Texas State History Museum. Austin, TX
Circus Posters Tiger Lithograph for Ringling Bros Circus attributed to Jonathan Livingston Bull at Circus World Museum. Baraboo, WI Poster of lady riding hippo in combined Barnes & Sells-Floto Circuses at Circus World Museum. Baraboo, WI Lithograph of 100 clowns who gathered for congress of clowns at Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus at Circus World Museum. Baraboo, WI
Buffalo Bill Cody Posters Poster of Scenes in the Life of Col. W.F. Cody at Buffalo Bill Museum. Lookout Mountain, CO Poster of Miss Annie Oakley for Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Congress of Rough Riders of the World at Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Cody, WY Poster of Cody the White Eagle for Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Congress of Rough Riders of the World at Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Cody, WY
Film & Stage Posters Poster for Salon du Cinématographe Français at Lumière Museum. Lyon, France Poster of Farewell Appearances of William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes at Gillette Castle State Park. East Haddam, CT James O'Neill in Virginius poster at Monte Cristo Cottage. New London, CT
U.S. Presidential Campaign Posters Poster for William Henry Harrison, Our Brave Defender by J. Pierson at Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site. Indianapolis, IN Lincoln-Hamlin campaign poster at Cleveland History Center. Cleveland, OH Kennedy for President poster in JFK Library. Boston, MA
Shipping Posters Poster of Great Clipper Trade Wind for Panama at Peabody Essex Museum. Salem, MA Canada by Anchor-Donaldson emigration poster at Riverside Museum. Glasgow, Scotland Poster for steamship service on Norddeutscher Lloyd line, Bremen at International Maritime Museum. Hamburg, Germany
Railway Posters Denver Zephyr poster at Colorado Railroad Museum. CO Replica of promotional poster for Mitropa luxury train at Nuremberg Transport Museum. Nuremberg, Germany Scotland for your Holidays poster by Terence Tenison Cuneo for British Railways at National Museum of Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland
Airline Posters Hamburg-Amerika Linie poster for Graf Zeppelin flights to South America from Germany at German Historical Museum. Berlin, Germany Deutsche Lufthansa poster at Deutsches Museum. Munich, Germany Poster of Pan American Honolulu Clipper promoting San Francisco-Hawaii Overnight & the Oriental Alameda Naval Air Museum. Alameda, CA
World War I Posters Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds British poster at German Historical Museum. Berlin, Germany Remember Belgium propaganda poster used to raise funds for relief of the invaded country in World War I, an effort headed by Herbert Hoover. West Branch, IA Austrian war bond sales poster by Julius Klinger of Vienna at German Historical Museum. Berlin, Germany
World War II Posters Blackout poster of death on a British bomber with slogan "the enemy sees your light! Darken!" at Nuremberg Transport Museum. Nuremberg, Germany WW II poster with rattlesnake warning against careless talk at New Mexico History Museum. Santa Fe, NM Come on Canada! Canadian WWII poster at Juno Beach Centre. Courseulles-sur-Mer, France
French Non-war Posters Winter in Nice poster designed by Atelier Chéret at Masséna Museum. Nice, France Jane Avril poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at Maxim's Art Nouveau Collection 1900. Paris, France Exposition Coloniale Internationale Paris 1931 poster at Army Museum at Les Invalides. Paris, France
Germanic Non-war Art Posters Emperor's Jubilee poster by Ferdinand Ludwig Graf at Leopold Museum. Vienna, Austria Poster for Great German Art Exhibitions of 1937 at Haus der Kunst. Munich, Germany Poster for Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibitions of May 16 to June 15, 1952 at Haus der Kunst. Munich, Germany
Irish Posters Original poster declaring Irish Republic at start of Easter Rising at Kilmainham Gaol Museum. Dublin, Ireland Posters concerning "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland at Linen Hall Library. Belfast, Northern Ireland Loose-talk costs lives poster at Linen Hall Library. Belfast, Northern Ireland
Advertising Posters Olde Heurich Brewing Co. poster showing Washington, DC factory where Watergate Hotel now stands at Christian Heurich Mansion. Washington, DC Poster for Waggoner-Gates Milling Co. of Independence, a family which once owned the Lewis-Bingham-Waggoner House. Independence, MO The Philistine poster promotes Roycroft's magazine at Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum. East Aurora, NY
Posters of History & Art Spanish Civil War poster to raise funds for bombed women & children of Madrid at Caen Memorial. Caen, France Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Crefeld Exhibition of More Modern German Art poster by Erich Heckel at Schleswig Holstein State Museum. Schleswig, Germany Garden hose pinup poster by Harry Morse Meyers at Bird Cage Theatre. Tombstone, AZ
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