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Period: 1940s
"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
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Located in London, GB
Original candid photographic production still for the 1948 drama, adventure film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
This film starred Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and was directed b...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster ENIT Sanremo Alassio Riviera Dei Fiori Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster issued by the Italian Tourism Board ENIT to promote the Riviera Dei Fiori Italy featuring a view of a coastal town with sailing boats on th...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Careless Talk Strictly Between You And Me Fougasse
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 and iconic Careless Talk Costs Lives...
Category
British 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...
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Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
King Kong
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still used for a re-release of the film in the late 1930's or early 1940's
King Kong is perfect blend of adventure, science fiction and horror, King ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$613
"Warhawks Are Killers!" Vintage WWII U.S. Army Air Force Poster, 1943
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a vintage WWII U.S. Army Air Force poster of a P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. The poster was illustrated by Melbourne Brindle and published...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
1948 Rope Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
The incomparable Alfred Hitchcock released "Rope" in 1948, based on the 1929 play of the same name. The classic film stars the iconic James Stewart, also known for his roles in other...
Category
American 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
Letter From an Unknown Woman
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1948 drama directed Max Ophuls and starred Joan Fontaine, Louis Jordan.
The poster was printed in 2 sheets and designed to be pasted up on bill board...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Food Poster Dig For Victory Empire Feed Fighting Men WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two food propaganda poster - Dig For Victory Your Groundnuts Help to Feed The Empire's Fighting Men - featuring four illustrations by Alfred John Nunney (1...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Red Shoes
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement Kinematograph weekly July 15th 1948
The film directed by the famous duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and is considered to be one of the...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$612
Original Vintage War Recruitment Poster Women Of Wales WWII Join Him Army ATS
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two recruitment poster - Women of Wales! Join Him in the Army From the six counties of North Wales 5,000 Women for the ATS and 5,000 Women for Munitions ne...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Health Safety Poster Sound Tools Safer Working ROSPA WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two health and safety poster published by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ROSPA - Sound Tools Safer Working - featuring a great graphic d...
Category
British Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"It Always Rains on Sunday, " British Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1947 Ealing Studios drama.
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
U.S. Navy "Navy Day October 27th" Vintage Poster by Matt Murphey, 1940
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Offered is an original U.S. Navy propaganda poster advertising "Navy Day." Below a large image of a U.S. battleship is block text reading "Navy Day, October 27th." The poster dates to 1940, shortly after the American entry into World War II. The poster highlights an impressive depiction of a column of U.S. battleships within a red border with small white anchors. The printed signature of U.S. Navy artist matte Murphey appears at the bottom right of the image, while the bottom edge of the poster bears the printing line: "NRB - 27919 - 8-5-40 - 18M." Each of the ships depicted in the image appear to feature cage masts, indicating that the artist was working from a reference image taken prior to the modernization of the U.S. battleship force in the late 1920s-early 1930s.
The first “Navy Day” was celebrated on October 27, 1922. October 27, 1922 was suggested by the Navy League to recognize Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday. Roosevelt had been an Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Casablanca
Located in London, GB
This is an exceptionally rare original Japanese film poster for Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman's 1942 classic. Directed by Michael Curtiz. The movie was shown in Japan in 1946 and t...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$4,769
Original Vintage British Railways Travel Advertising Poster Newquay Cornwall UK
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways travel advertising poster for Newquay on the Cornish Coast featuring a fantastic image of a smiling lady surfer wearing a red swimming cap riding a ...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Capri Island Of The Sun ENIT Italy G Riccobaldi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster published by the Italian Tourism Board ENIT for Capri l'isola del Sole / Island of the Sun featuring a colourful view by Giuseppe Riccobaldi (1887-1976) of the cliffs and faraglioni rock...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Holland Jan Wijga Netherlands Sailboat Windmill
By Jan Wijga
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Holland featuring colourful design by Jan Wijga (1902-1978) depicting a lady wearing the red, white and blue stripes of the flag on her swimsuit di...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Documentary Film Poster Whales In Antarctica Life Of Insects
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster advertising the new Soviet film collection No. 6 of Popular Science and Documentary movies - За Китами в Антарктику / After the Whales in Antarctica - featuri...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Join The New Army Infantry l'Infanterie De l'Armee
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two French military recruitment poster - Join The New Army Infantry / Engagez-vous Rengagez-vous dans l'Infanterie de l'Armee Nouvelle - featuring an illus...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Sunderland Flying Boat RAF Coastal Command Aircraft
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster for the 20-Ton Giant Of The Coastal Command - A Short Sunderland Flying Boat featuring an annotated technical cut-out...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Careless Talk Fougasse Transport 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 and iconic Careless Talk Costs Lives...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Ziegfeld Girl
Located in London, GB
Original photographic production still for 1941 musical romance film Ziegfeld Girl.
This film starred James Stewart, Judy Garland and Hedy Lamarr.
This f...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$613
Original Vintage War Poster Attack Begins In The Factory WWII British Royal Navy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - The Attack Begins in the Factory - featuring a dramatic battle scene showing explosions and Royal Navy ships at sea in the distance and soldie...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Great Expectations" Original Belgian Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian movie poster for David Lean's film adaptation of Charles Dickens famous novel. The artwork on this poster is unique to the film B...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Posters
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
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
$538
Original Vintage Summer Travel Poster Beatenberg Niederhorn Switzerland Peikert
Located in London, GB
Original vintage summer travel poster for Beatenberg Niederhorn Switzerland Berner Oberland Suisse. Great artwork by Martin Peikert (1901-1975) depicti...
Category
Swiss 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
Original Vintage War Poster Gold Coast Manganese Makes Steel Ships WWII Navy
By Roy Nockolds
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Your Manganese Makes Steel for Fighting Ships Thank You Gold Coast! - featuring a design by Roy Anthony Nockolds (1911-1979) depicting two ill...
Category
British 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
Twelve O'Clock High
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High. This American war film was adapted from the 1948 novel of the same name by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr. The screenpl...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$1,294
Tarzan and the Amazons
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card for Tarzan and the Amazons 1945
This action advenure film starred Jonny Weissmuller and Brenda Joyce. The film was directed by Kurt...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$1,022
Postman Always Rings Twice
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card number 8 (withdrawn) for The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946.
This American film noir is based James M. Cain novel of the same name. The film was directed by ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Pursued / Notte Senza Fine
Located in London, GB
Exceptionally rare original Italian film poster for the 1947 western Pursued.
This film was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred Teresa Wright and Robert Mitchum. To date no other exa...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Lawless Frontier
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1934 Western starring John Wayne and directed by Robert N. Bradbury.
This poster was created for the films US re-release 1940s.
This poster is conser...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$1,083
Marlene Dietrich
Located in London, GB
Original US oversized studio portrait photograph of Marlene Dietrich.
This piece is conservation framed in a Obeche wood frame with card mounts and U...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$613
The Lost Weekend
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card number 6 for the 1944 Film Noir The Lost Weekend.
This film was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry.
This piece woul...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$408
Pinocchio
Located in London, GB
Original British front of house card used inside the foyer of the cinema.
The artwork features the films scene where pinocchio takes his first steps.
Walt Disney's second animated fe...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paint
$885
Original Vintage Soviet Poster Treasure The Honour Of The Family USSR Propaganda
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Treasure the Honour of the Family! - featuring the quote below artwork showing an elderly man pointing to three photographs on a wall of m...
Category
Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Wizard of Oz / Il Mago di Oz
Located in London, GB
Exceptionally rare original Italian film poster for The Wizard of Oz 1939.
Due to World War II The film had its first release in Italy 1949.
The art work on this piece is unique to t...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
"You can't afford to miss Either! Buy Bonds Every Payday" Vintage WWII Poster
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Dated 1944, this vintage WWII poster encourages the purchase of War Bonds. The poster depicts a machine gunner in action, fighting in the Pacific theater. His hands clutch a machine ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
House of Fear
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1945 Film Noir Mystery House of Fear.
This film starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
The film was directed by Roy William Neill.
This lobby card is conservation framed with UV plexiglass in an Obeche wood frame with card mounts and UV plexiglass. The Size given is before framing. The piece would be shipped boxed...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$817 Sale Price
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Original Vintage Food Poster The Right Way To Cook Greens Kitchen Cooking HMSO
Located in London, GB
Original vintage food poster - The Right Way to Cook Greens - featuring an image of shredded green vegetables inside an outline of a pot in red below the b...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage WWII Military Propaganda Poster Blenheim Bomber Submarine Nazi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two military propaganda poster - A British Blenheim Bomber of the Coastal Command Aids a British Destroyer in Smashing a German Submarine - featuring a col...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Thief of Bagdad
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1940 Adventure Fantasy Film The Thief of Bagdad.
This film starred Conrad Veidt, Sabu and June Duprez and was directed by
a host of wonderful directo...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$1,907
Original Vintage WWII Poster De Dollarpoliep The US Dollar Polyp Octopus War Map
Located in London, GB
Original vintage anti-American imperialism World War Two political propaganda poster - De Dollarpoliep / The Dollar Polyp or The Dollar Octopus - featuring an image of a US dollar sign with octopus like tentacles reaching into different countries on a map in and around North and South America marking areas with dates on each tentacle, war ships at sea and military planes flying towards it on both sides from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with sunken ships at sea and a sword marked with a rising sun emblem of Japan cutting through the tentacle dated 1898 round the Philippines on a black background, the title text above and information on the side and below with the quote on a paper background, translated from the Dutch - The well-known American publicist Henry R. Luce recently wrote in Life a magazine read by millions of Americans: "In 1919 we had a great opportunity to take control of the world. Wilson made bad use of it and we lost that chance. But whatever happens, by our collective effort Roosevelt must succeed where Wilson failed." For Americans, the law of nations is the law of the wilderness. America to Americans means that every country where the Yankees want to plant their flag suddenly becomes America and falls under the Monroe Doctrine. The history of America is one imperialistic rampage, shooting dollars instead of bullets! By exploiting European wars, America's traditional policy is to enrich itself with European interests in the Atlantic and the Pacific. So Roosevelt also thought to exploit this war for American world domination! Already dying England has made its sacrifice. But for the first time, America miscalculated! Japan and Germany now encircle America in the two Oceans...
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Dutch 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...
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Russian Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Support The Legacy Of Our Fallen Navy Men WWII Dutch
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Support the legacy of our fallen Navy men / Steunt de nagelaten betrekkingen van onze gesneuvelde Marinemannen - featuring dramatic artwork by...
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Dutch Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Sport Travel Poster Come To Britain For Golf Rowland Hilder UK
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport themed travel poster - Come to Britain for Golf - Artwork by the notable British painter Rowland Hilder (1905-1933) featuring four men playing golf alongside a...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Wings For Victory More Savings More Wings WWII RAF
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Wings for Victory More Savings More Wings - featuring a military illustration of a British Royal Air Force RAF pilot with a moustache, wearing...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Juke Girl
Located in London, GB
Original Us film poster for the 1942 Film Juke Girl.
directed by Curtis Bernhardtand starred Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan.
This poster is conservation linen backed and it would be ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$2,044
Original Vintage War Poster Dutch Navy East Indies WWII Japanese Fleet Recruit
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two military recruitment poster for the Dutch Navy relating to action in the Dutch East Indies - Ik val aan ... volgt mij dit sein waarmee schout bij nacht...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Gulliver's Travels
Located in London, GB
This is a ver rare original Japanese film poster for The 1939 Fantasy Animation Gulliver's Travels. This film was directed by Dave Fleisher.
This poster was created for the films fir...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
$1,022
Original Vintage War Propaganda Poster Train To Be A Nurse WWII Clixby Watson
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Train to be a nurse... a distinguished career - featuring an illustration by Clixby Watson (Charles Clixby Watson; 1906-1964) depic...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Poster Keep Guard On What You Say Soldier WWII Abram Games
By Abram Games
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Keep a Guard on What You Say… Fantastic design by the notable British graphic designer Abram Games (Abraham Gamse; 1914-1996) depicting the face of a soldier wearing a military army cap with a silhouette in white of a soldier holding a rifle gun and standing guard in front of his open mouth as a sentry box...
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British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Woman in the Window
Located in London, GB
Original Us Original production still for the 1944 Film Noir The Woman In The Window directed by Fritz Lang
and starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett. Th...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage WWII Home Front Propaganda Poster We Want You With Us War Work
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front propaganda poster - We want You with us! There's a place for everyone locally or somewhere in England Get into War Work this week - featurin...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Posters
Materials
Paper
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