While I love looking at old posters reproduced or displayed individually, this kind of presentation is often vastly different from the posters' original context. I always find it fascinating to see photographs of posters in situ, to see the places they were posted and the other posters they were displayed with (almost always many others, or repeats of the same). This blog has already had posts of wartime posters on the street and two editions of London Transport posters; today, a variety.
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National Library of Ireland |
Ireland, ca. 1898. Source
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Berenice Abbott, New York Public Library |
Film posters outside a cinema in New York City, 1936. Source
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Yale Joel, LIFE © Time Inc. |
This only comes with the general subject heading "Posters - Greyhound Bus Poster - New York". Presumably 1960s. Source
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Tony Linck, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Advertising and political posters in Dublin, 1948. Source
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David Linck, LIFE © Time Inc. |
A wall of political posters, Dublin, 1948. Source
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George Lacks, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Chinese men looking at posters posted by USIS, 1946. Source
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William Vandivert, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Newspaper posters outside a news shop in Dublin, 1940. Source
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David E. Scherman, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Posters advertising the nature freak show at the New York World's Fair, 1939. Source
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Eugene Atget, George Eastman House |
Posters on an old Paris street, 1907. Source
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Yale Joel, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Another "Greyhound Bus Poster" one. Source
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David E. Scherman, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Posters advertising plays, Dublin, 1943. Source
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Library of Congress |
Suffragettes posting bills over movie posters, 1911. Source
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Library of Congress |
Wartime posters in a rural school, Texas, 1943. Source
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Musee McCord Museum |
A (possibly recruiting) exhibition full of wartime posters, Montreal, 1916-1917. Source
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National Library of Ireland |
Posters at Blossom Gate, Kilmallock, Ireland, 1909. Source
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National Library of Ireland |
A wall of advertising posters behind a procession, Dublin, 1929. Source
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John Philips, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Political posters surronding the balcony from which Mussolini declared war on Ethiopia in 1940, Italy, 1946. Source
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Nat Farbman, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Posters calling for Natal Indians to resist passively to segregation laws, South Africa, 1946. Source
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National Library of Scotland |
A tenement building covered in posters, Edinburgh, 1929. Source
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Mark Kauffman, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Posters advertising a jazz festival, Warsaw, 1958. Source
2 comments:
I'd love to visit those places with Greyhound Bus posters :D
very cool photos!
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