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Period: 1940s
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Help Britain Finish the Job Libya WWII
By Marc Stone
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Help Britain Finish The Job! - featuring a dynamic image by the British artist Marcus Stone (1909-1991) showing British soldiers ar...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Food Poster Fresh For Health From Americas Orchards Fruit USA
Located in London, GB
Original vintage food poster - Fresh For Health From America's Orchards - featuring a great design depicting a smiling farmer wearing a hat and re...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Skiing Poster Winter Sports In France Jean Leger Ski
By Jean Leger
Located in London, GB
Original vintage skiing poster advertising Winter Sports in France featuring a great design depicting a couple on skis enjoying the view of the snowy mountains below the blue sky bac...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Australia Land Of Tomorrow Immigration Joe Greenberg
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster - Australia land of tomorrow - featuring a bright and colourful design by the Australian artist Joe Greenberg (Joseph Greenberg; 1923-2007) depicting a rural ...
Category
Australian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Letter / La Lettre
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for William Wyler's 1940 Film Noir starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and James Stephenson. The screenplay by Howard E. Koch is based on the 1927 play...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Fruits Of Victory National Savings WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - To Enjoy the Fruits of Victory Save Now - featuring a countryside illustration From the original by Rowland Hilder (1905-1993) depicting a rur...
Category
Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Bambi
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the classic Walt Disney production.
The artwork was designed by great French poster artist Alexis (dates unknown) and was unique to the French poster....
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Remember Dec. 7th" Vintage WWII Poster by Allen Saalburg, 1942
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original WWII poster by Allen Saalburg, published in 1942. The poster features a tattered American flag at half-mast, with billowing smoke, flames, and a partially obscur...
Category
Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage British Military Recruitment Poster Join The Modern Army WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage military recruitment poster - Join The Modern Army - featuring British Army soldiers in uniform driving various tanks and other vehicles including a car and riding m...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Nice Work Happiness Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Nice Travail et Joie / Work and Happiness H. Matisse - featuring colourful artwork by the renowned French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Attack Begins In The Factory Bomber WWII Nockolds
By Roy Nockolds
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - The Attack Begins in the Factory - featuring an aerial view by Roy Anthony Nockolds (1911-1979) of British RAF Royal Air Force bomber planes l...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Big Sleep
Located in London, GB
Original US black and white photographic production still for the 1946 Film Noir The Big Sleep. this production still would have been used by the studio to advertise the film. these ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Dolomiti Visit The Dolomites Italy Alps Mountains
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for The Dolomites / Dolomiti in Italy - Design features a family of tourists looking on in awe at the Dolomites mountain r...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Winter Ski Sports Travel Poster This Winter Sun Valley Idaho
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sports travel poster - This Winter Sun Valley - featuring a great image of a smiling lady in a yellow and blue ski suit skiing down a snowy slope at speed wit...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Forward To Victory Spitfire Pilots Blitz WWII RAF
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Forward to Victory - featuring a dynamic design depicting military Royal Air Force RAF pilots in uniform running towards their Spitfire planes...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Rare Original Vintage Guinness Poster My Goodness Where's The Guinness Goose
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage Guinness poster - My Goodness where's the Guinness? - featuring fun artwork by the British graphic designer Alfred Ambrose Chew L...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Dick Tracy
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1945 action detective film Dick Tracy.
This film starred Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys and Mike Mazurki, and was directed by...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Film Poster Prairie Station Paren Iz Taygi USSR Movie
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet film poster directed by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Ivan Pravov - Парень из тайги Prairie Station (Paren Iz Taygi) - a 1941 adventure movie about gold digging m...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Big Shot / Le Caid
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster from the 1942 Film Noir.
These large French posters were designed to be pasted onto billboards throughout France, and...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Drink Poster Have A Guinness When You're Tired Smiling Pint Man
Located in London, GB
Original vintage iconic drink advertising poster for Guinness Irish stout beer - Have a Guinness when you're tired - featuring a classic image of a pint glass...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Handen Weg! Europa Hands Off Europe War Netherlands
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Hands off Europe / Handen weg! Europa - featuring a dramatic illustration depicting a giant hand grasping at the map of Europe defending itsel...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Pan Am Travel Map Poster South America Continent Of Contrasts
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Pan Am travel advertising map poster - South America Continent of Contrasts served by Pan American World Airways and Pan American Grace ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Tarzan's Magic Fountain
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement for the 1949 adventure, fantasy science film Tarzan's Magic Fountain.
The film was directed by Lee Sholem and starred Lex Barker, Brenda Joyce, ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Union Propaganda Poster Kazakhstan Anniversary KSSR USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Do you fulfill your obligations in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Kazakh SSR? - featuring an army soldier in military uniform point...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Canadians Alert Buy Victory Bonds WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Canadians Alert! Come on Canada! Buy The New Victory Bonds - featuring an illustration by Archibald Bruce Staplet...
Category
Canadian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Back Them Up WWII British Submarines
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Back Them Up! In the Mediterranean, British submarines have caused great havoc to Axis shipping - featuring a dramatic naval image of a Royal ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Merchant Navy Thank You Gun Harold Forster WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster To The Merchant Navy - Thank You! Design by Harold Percy Forster (1895–1975) features two members of the Navy on board a ship at sea aiming a na...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Located in London, GB
Original British Front of house still for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937.
This piece would have been used to advertise the film inside the cinema foyer.
This piece was created...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Wear the 'FIGHTIN'EST' wings in the service" Vintage WWII Marines Poster 1942
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II Marines recruitment poster from 1942. The poster, a color lithograph, was printed by the Alpha Litho. Co., out of Camden, NJ. In the center of the composition appears a striking blue eagle, which tears apart a Japanese plane with its talons. The poster displays the slogan "Wear the FIGHTINEST wings in the service, Fly with the Marines" in bold letters above and below the image. On the bottom in black lettering is the phrase: "Apply, or write, to nearest recruiting station." The Marines logo appears in yellow in the top right hand corner of the composition, set against a red background.
The Second World War ushered in the biggest government-led advertising campaign to date, critical to the wartime communication needs of every combatant: from raising money, recruiting soldiers and boosting volunteer efforts, to spurring production and provoking outrage at enemy atrocities. The Office of War Information (OWI) commissioned some of the nation’s leading artists to produce the stark, colorful graphic designs. The posters played to the fears, frustrations, and faith in freedoms that lingered in people's minds during the war.
The most common themes found in the posters were the consequences of careless talk, supporting the war effort at home through conservation, victory gardens, and the purchasing of War Bonds, and anti-German and Japanese propaganda...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
WPA Poster “Mobilizing Michigan for Farm and Factory” by Maurice Merlin
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Incredibly rare, original WPA poster designed by Maurice Merlin, a prominent Detroit artist documenting the struggles of urban Michigan.
Poster mounted to ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paint, Paper
Original Vintage Cycling Race Poster Vuelta Ciclista Cataluna Race Spain Pirelli
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cycling poster for the XXV Vuelta Ciclista a Cataluna V Gran Premio Bodas de Plata / XXV Catalonia Cycling Tour V Gra...
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Spanish Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Pin Up Lady Telephone Mirror George Petty Art Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster featuring an illustration by the notable American pin-up artist George Brown Petty IV (1894-1975) depicting a lady in a transparent dress holding a sketch of ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
1940 El Lissitzky ‘Beat the whites ‘ reprint lithograph in colours
By El Lissitzky
Located in London, GB
Bolshevik propaganda poster
Beat the whites (Tsars White Russians) with the red wedge
Constructivism art, this reprint litho from the 1917 original ...
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Ukrainian Other Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Grand Canyon" Vintage Santa Fe Railroad Travel Poster by Oscar M. Bryn, 1949
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a vintage Grand Canyon travel poster for the Santa Fe Southern Railway, issued in 1949. The poster promotes railroad travel...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
La Regle Du Jeu / The Rules of the Game
Located in London, GB
Exceptionally rare original French film poster for La Regle du Jeu / The Rules of the Game. This film starred Marcel Dalio , Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, and was directed by Jean...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Red Shoes
Located in London, GB
a rare original Australian souvenir program cover for The Red Shoes 1948. This film was directed by the famous duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressbu...
Category
Australian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Philadelphia Story
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for the classic 1940 comedy
starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart.
This piece is conservation framed with in a Tulip wood...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Roma Citta Aperta / Rome Open City
Located in London, GB
exceptionally rare and important original Italian film poster for Roberto Rossellini's land mark Italian Neo-Realism film. This film starred Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani and Marcello P...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Rita Hayworth Portrait Photo
Located in London, GB
Original Rita Hayworth portrait photo. This is a silver gelatin, double weight satin photograph from 1940s. This piece would be shipped flat in strong card.
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster It's Our War Canada Propaganda Art Eric Aldwinckle
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster featuring a dynamic design by Eric Aldwinckle (1901-1980) of a hand clenching a hammer against a red, white and blue shaded background with the ...
Category
Canadian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Wizard of Oz
Located in London, GB
Original British front of house still for The Wizard of Oz.
These British front of house stills are the equivalent to Lobby cards in the US.
The film came out in 1939. This still wou...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Philadelphia Story
Located in London, GB
Original US trade advertisement for the classic 1940 comedy
starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart. This film was directed by George Cukor.
This piece is conservat...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster It All Depends On Me WWII Home Front
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front poster - It All Depends On Me - featuring an illustration of a lady holding her arms outstretched and holding hands with other people agains...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Hue and Cry
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1947 Ealing Studios comedy.
This poster was designed by the English painter, illustrator and graphic designer Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
This fil...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Tarzan Triumphs / Le Triomphe de Tarzan
Located in London, GB
Original French film poster for the 1943 film Tarzan Triumphs.
This adventure film was directed by Wilhelm Thiele, and was based on the characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Johnny Weissmuller...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Walt Disney Presents the World's Greatest Shorts
Located in London, GB
This rare original British animation poster was designed to advertise Walt Disney shorts. In England posters were not produced for every short cartoon, ...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Mark of Zorro / Il Segno Di Zorro
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1940 adventure romance film The Mark of Zorro.
This film was directed by Rouben Mamoulian The cast includes Tyrone Power...
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Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
A Matter of Life and Death / Stairway to Heaven
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still from the 1946 drama , romance musical starring David Niven, Kim Hunter and Ramond Massey.
This film was directed by Michael Powell and Emeric P...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"She's Ready, Too. Buy War Bonds" Vintage WWII Bonds Poster, 1942
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a vintage WWII War Bonds poster, printed in 1942. In the poster, a confident woman sets out with conviction to buy war bonds, her hand over her pocketbook. As the woman ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Ceylon Beach Picnic Sri Lanka Asia Holiday Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster promoting Ceylon featuring a great illustration showing a lady in a traditional sari dress leaning against a palm tree on a sandy beach with people on ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Poster USSR WWII Victory Long Live Generalissimos Stalin
By Viktor Deni
Located in London, GB
Original vintage soviet victory propaganda poster issued in 1945 at the end of world war two featuring a dynamic design by the notable cartoonist and bolshevist agitpop poster artist...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Go West
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for the American comedy Go West directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx.
Thi...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
To Have and Have Not
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1944 Film Noir To Have and Have Not.
This film starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and was directed by Howard Hawks.
This piece is conservation ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster United For The Liberation WWII Spitfire Planes RAF
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Unis pour la Liberation / United for the Liberation - featuring three Allied military fighter aircraft flying at speed in formation, including...
Category
British Art Deco Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Flamingo Road / Viale Flamingo
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1949 Film Noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Sydney Greenstreet and Zachary Scott. This siz...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Careless Talk Costs Lives No Harm Restaurant WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster by the notable British cartoonist and illustrator Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird; 1887-1965), from the popular iconic Careless Talk Costs Lives wa...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Slavic Unity Death Sentence For German Beasts WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Jednota slovanu v boji tot rozsudek smrti nad nemeckymi bestiemi! / Slavic unity in battle that's a death sentence for the German beasts! - fe...
Category
Czech Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Route Poster Air France Planisphere Map Lucien Boucher
Located in London, GB
Original vintage planisphere travel route map poster promoting Air France the global air network of the French national airline carrier. Design by Lucien Boucher (1889-1971) featurin...
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French Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
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