Vintage Bicycle Poster, Cycles Lea, France

This is a rare and early French poster for a Concert Cabaret. The image has a full length female harlequin with doll and a second clown lurking behind. Art is by H. Gray and poster r...

1890s-early 1900s by the Donaldson Litho Co. of Newport, KY. "Al G. Field Big Minstrels - Dan Quinlan Poster has inset image of Field in upper left-hand corner. Main image of poster ...

This was an estate find and part of a beautiful collection of rare excellent turn of the century posters. They were hidden away for over 100 years. This is a rare and impressive 3 sheet poster that is 7 foot tall. It make quite a statement. About the poster: You'd think that a play called "The New Baby" might feature said child in its promotional material. But here's the thing - there really isn't a baby at the centre of the comedy, and that's the crux of this entertainment. The plot concerns a husband who is so bored with country life that he dreams up the idea of having an illegitimate son in London as a way to get into town for an occasional 'night off'. When his wife decides that the child should be adopted, the expected comic tissue of falsehoods and misunderstandings frays and hilarity ensues. Adapted from German by A. Bourchier, the farce opened in London in 1896 to what a local critic termed 'much mirth'. Several years later, when the play had crossed the Atlantic and entered the repertory of David de Wolf cleverly called the Baby's chaperone on the poster and his troupe of traveling players, that understated review was translated into the more American howling success. The cast and director would've been totally unfamiliar with the British hinterlands, so this splendid design concentrates on the hi-jinks of the characters and their situation. At the start of the 20th century, America was in the full glory of its cultural adolescence, bursting with energy and optimism. In 1900 in New York there were 33 legitimate Broadway theaters...

This is one of the best posters from the 1930s Winslow classroom series. The graphics are Silhouette against a dramatic black background... unique to these posters. Black was used so...

An original nicely framed Charlie Chaplin "Charlot" movie poster, designed by Auguste Louis Leymarie, color lithograph on paper. At over 5 foot tall French poster is an impressive si...

This is an early lithographed anatomical chart by Amer-Frohse. Fritz Frohse (1871-1916) was the original artist, a German anatomist and doctor, publis...

Original Poster-Cycles Lorette-Cycling-Mountain Bicycle, c.1925 Advertising poster for Lorette Cycles. A cyclist, in orange clothes, is we a bicycl...

Original antique advertising poster for Humber bicycles featuring a heavenly illustration of a fashionably dressed lady with a bicycle lit up from the shining sun behind her and the ...

Original vintage advertising poster for Helyett bicycles featuring a clever design depicting three bikes with their wheels overlapping each other to form five colour rings of the Oly...

Original vintage advertising poster for BSA Streamlight Bicycles featuring a colourful image of a smartly dressed cyclist smiling to the viewer as he rides his new bike below the tex...

Original vintage bike advertising poster for Omega Cycles featuring scenic artwork by Dorfi (Albert Dorfinant; 1881-1976) depicting a man smoking a pipe a...

Original Poster-Paolo Henri-Cycles Gladiator-Paris-Bicycle-Polo, c.1900 The poster shows us that Gladiator Cycles can be used by everyone, men and ...