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Original Vintage Poster In The Near East Cruise Ship Sailing Boats Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster featuring a colourful scenic artwork titled In The Near East painted by Jean Jacques Midderigh (1877-1970) showing men in rowi...
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Dutch Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage World War Two Poster Buy Victory Bonds WWII Soldier Sailor Navy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Buy Victory Bonds - featuring a dynamic battle scene with explosions in the background and three men in military uniform armed with guns charging forward over barbed wire, an army soldier...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
"Black Narcissus" Original Japanese Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese movie poster for the 1947 drama starring Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Sabu. Directed by the great British duo Michael Powell, Em...
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Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Original Vintage General Dynamics Poster Triga General Atomic Erik Nitsche
By Erik Nitsche
Located in London, GB
Original vintage General Dynamics poster - Triga General Atomic - featuring a midcentury design by the illustrator, typographer and graphic designer Erik Nitsche (1908-1998) featurin...
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Swiss Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Cruise Travel Poster French Line Gayest Entree To Europe France
Located in London, GB
Original vintage cruise travel advertising poster - French Line Your Gayest Entree to Europe France Afloat From New York to England & France - featuring a great Art Deco design depic...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Very Scarce Original Vintage Sport Poster Rome Olympic Games Italy Testa Russian
Located in London, GB
Very scarce original vintage sport poster for the XVII Olympic Games in Rome featuring a great design by Armando Testa (1917-1992) with a Russian text. Design depicts the twin brothe...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Ski Travel Poster St Moritz Piz Nair Hausamann Modernist Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster for St Moritz Piz Nair Schweiz Suisse Switzerland Svizzera featuring a fantastic modernist design by Wolfgang Hausamann (1914-1994) depicting a red...
Category
Swiss Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Yellow Submarine The Beatles Sgt. Pepper Music Movie Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage musical film poster issued by Hallmark for the animated movie Yellow Submarine starring Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band based on...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Il Buono Il Brutto Il Cattivo
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1966 movie staring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef, directed by Sergio Leone. The Good, the Bad and the...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Gambling with Souls / The Vice Racket
Located in London, GB
Original American movie poster for the 1936 exploitation film. This is a very rare poster only a few are known to have survived. This 1936 exploitation film was directed by Dwain Esp...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Recruitment Poster Regular Army Guardians Of Peace Hong Kong
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British military recruitment poster - Soldiers of the Queen The Regular Army Guardians of Peace - featuring an illustration of a smiling soldier in uniform disembark...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Fantastic Voyage
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1966 science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch. The fabulous artwork is unique to the Japan...
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Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Against the Wind, British Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for war, drama made by Ealing Studios in 1948.
This size is known as a door panel and is hardest size poster to find ...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
"Dracula Has Risen from the Grave / Le Amanti Di Dracula" Italian Movie Poster
By Renato Ferrini
Located in London, GB
Original Italian movie poster. This poster was designed to be used in a display case outside the cinemas in Italy at the time of the film’s release in the 1968.
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Roman Holiday
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1953 Classic.
This romantic comedy was directed and produced by William Wyler, and stars Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Hepburn won an Academy Awar...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster At London's Service London Transport Epping Forest Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Transport travel poster - At London's Service - featuring a colourful illustration by the British poster designer and artist Clive Gardiner (1891-1960) depicting a scenic view of the historic Epping Forest...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Advertising Monaco Aquarium Art Deco Ocean Museum
By Jean Luc
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for advertising the Monaco Aquarium featuring a great design depicting fish swimming with weeds and corals on the sandy ...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon / I Cavalieri di Nord Ovest
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the film She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949.
This western was directed by John Ford, and stars John Wayne, Joanne Dru and Jo...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
"Let 'Em Have It. Buy Extra Bonds" Vintage WWII 4th War Loan Poster, 1943
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an original World War II poster, dating to 1943. The poster reads "Let 'Em Have It" and “Buy Extra Bonds” in bold yellow and white block letters. The poster's composition features a soldier throwing a grenade on the battlefield. Black and blue smoked filled skies and barbed wire are seen behind him. The 4th War Loan Shield is illustrated prominently at center left. The poster was illustrated by Bernard Perlin...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Mont Saint Michel Island Sailing Train Coach Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage railway travel poster - Visit Mont Saint Michel by train and coach - Besuchen Sie Den Mont Saint-Michel - featuring colourful artwork by the renowned graphic artist ...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Fashion Poster 'Pellet' by Rene Gruau, 1969
By René Gruau
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Incredible over-size format original poster by Rene Gruau. This poster is linen backed for preservation in excellent condition.
Artist
Rene Gruau
Year
1969
Dimensions
240 x 1...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Linen, Paper
School Wall Chart, Monaco
Located in Wolfurt, AT
MONACO(D) MONACO(DK) MONACO(E) MONACO(F) MONACO(GB) MONACO(I) MOMACO(NL)
Foto: H. Hariz, Hamburg - Druck: Herder Druck Freiburg im Breisga
Europa ET Schola Editio. Alphen aan...
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German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Illustrated Map Poster Empire Industry Where Our Tea Comes From
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Tea An Empire Industry Where Our Tea Comes From. Rare small version depicting colourful illustrated maps of India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) fea...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
The Beatles 'A Hard Day's Night' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1964
Located in Devon, GB
A rare and sought after Japanese B2 poster for The Beatles' first full-length feature film 'A Hard Day's Night,' which followed the fab four over an anarchic 36 hours in London at th...
Category
Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
1969 The Who - Premier of Tommy - Ronnie Scotts Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Iconic poster for a legendary gig, this beautiful piece of music history was created in 1969 to promote The Who's live premiere of their fourth album "Tommy". Featuring fantastic art...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Megeve Ski France SNCF Railways Art Alps Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Megeve issued by the state owned French National Railways (SNCF Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais; founded 1938) featuring a view of tr...
Category
French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
"Train of Events" Original British Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1949 Ealing Studios drama starring Valerie Hobson, Jack Warner,Gladys Henson. The film was directed by Sidney Cole, Ch...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Olivetti Graphika Typewriter Design Italy
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Olivetti Graphika typewriter model featuring a great mid-century graphic design depicting letters of the alphabet on typewriter keys...
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Masculin Feminin
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster from Jean-Luc Godard's 1966 French New Wave film Masculin Feminin.
The film starred Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, and Marlène Jobert.
This poster i...
Category
Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Victor Moscoso, Signed Vintage Exhibition Poster ‘Trippy World’
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed vintage Victor Moscoso exhibition poster
Published in conjunction with 'Trippy World' - a 1999 exhibition held at Baron/Boisante gallery, New York.
Off-set lithograph
Measures: 16 x 20 inches
Hand signed in pencil (lower right).
Very good to excellent overall condition
Signed First printing; 1999; acquired directly from Baron/Boisante.
Victor Moscoso was among the most gifted and influential artists to emerge from the '60s counterculture, pioneering not only the psychedelic concert poster designs made famous during San Francisco's Summer of Love, but also making his mark in underground comix. Born in Spain and raised in Brooklyn, Moscoso attended Cooper Union Art School before studying at the Yale School of Art; he arrived on the west coast in 1959 to enroll at the San Francisco Art Institute, and after graduation remained at the school for another five years to teach lithography. Alongside Rick Griffin, Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, and Alton Kelley...
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Bohemian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage War Home Front Poster Put Out Waste Paper Ammunition WWII
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two home front recycling poster - Put out waste paper It is used for ammunition and other vital needs - featuring a dramatic image of a soldier firing a ma...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
'Marihuana' Original Vintage US One Sheet Movie Poster, 1930s
Located in Devon, GB
Claiming to be a "Daring Drug Expose!", this early exploitation film evaded strict censorship of its lurid content ("Weird Orgies, Wild Parties, Unleashed Passions!") by claiming to ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
"Cafe Metropole", Swedish Film Poster
By Eric Rohman
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish film poster from the 1937 comedy romance film directed by Edward H Griffith and starring Loretta Young, Tyrone Power, Adolph Menjou. For ...
Category
Swedish Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster It's Beautiful Now In New York State Travel Hiking Fall
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - It's Beautiful Now In ... New York State The State That Has Everything, featuring a stunning design in late summer early fall autumn colors of deep red, orange and brown shades, yellow and green, depicting the silhouette of a couple hiking in the New York countryside with a tree framing the image next to the man holding one arm in the air and lady holding a hiking stick...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Scotland For Sport British Railways Poster: Golf Skiing Sailing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster issued by British Railways: Scotland for Sport travel by train - featuring a colourful design of small images depicting people enjoying the various sporting activities on offer in Scotland: a man playing golf, a skier zooming down a piste on snowy mountains, sailing boats at sea, a rock climber...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Sport Poster Merano Corse Al Galoppo Italy Gallop Horse Racing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport event travel poster for Merano - International Meeting of Gallop Racing / Riunione Internazionale Corse Al Galoppo - featuring a stunning graphic design of a jockey with the Union Jack flag and the flags of France and Italy on his top, holding a riding whip...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Spanish Civil War Poster Treballadors! Workers Against Fascism
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Spanish Civil War poster - Workers! All Against Fascism / Treballadors! Tots contra el feixisme - featuring a dynamic warrior...
Category
Spanish Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Birds, The (1963)
Located in London, GB
Birds, The (1963)
Original British Quad (30 X 40 Inches)
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn...
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Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
Located in London, GB
Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
Original British Quad (30 X 40 Inches)
"Jim Stark...a kid from a 'good family' - what makes him tick like a bomb?" James Dean stars in the definitive st...
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Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage British Railways Modernisation Plan Poster Progress Train Depot
Located in London, GB
Original vintage rail travel advertising poster – Progress Every week British Railways Modernisation Plan goes further ahead – featuring great artwork by the notable British artist Terence Tenison Cuneo (1907-1996) for the cover of Progress, the Unilever magazine Winter issue 1957-1958, depicting workers in a train depot...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Rebecca / Rebeca
Located in London, GB
Original IArgentine film poster for Rebecca, 1940.
Daphne du Maurier's gripping 1938 novel was made into a film in 1940 by Alfred Hitchcock. It was ...
Category
Argentine Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Film Poster Ziegfeld Follies Fred Astaire Judy Garland Pin Up
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for an MGM film in Technicolour - Ziegfeld Follies - the Greatest production since the birth of motion pictures! featuring an all star cast including Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Gene Kelly and others, directed by Roy Del Ruth and Vincente Minnelli, and produced by Arthur Freed. Fun pin-up style design depicting a lady in a feather bird costume smiling at the viewer while holding a telephone with her other hand on her hip, the bold stylised title letter Z following the shape of her body with the text on the side against the yellow background. This musical film was a cinematic take on The Ziegfeld Follies theatrical production on Broadway New York City that ran from 1907 to 1931, inspired by the pretty pin up chorus girls...
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Australian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Rebeca
Located in London, GB
Original Argentinean film poster from (1940) 43 x 29 in. (109 x 74 cm)
This poster would have been used outside the cinema at the films original release.
This psychological drama-t...
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Argentine Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Original Vintage Train Travel Poster Royal Windsor British Railways Fred Taylor
By Fred Taylor
Located in London, GB
Original vintage train travel poster - Royal Windsor - featuring a scenic view of a troop of royal guards marching in their red uniforms past the Round Tower in the grounds of the hi...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Point Blank
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for 1967 film Point Blank. The film was directed by John Boorman at Lee Marvin's request, and stars Marvin, Angie Dickinson and...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Gagarin Space Pioneer Cosmonaut USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Our Motherland is the Pioneer of Space! / ???? ?????? ?????? ???????! Dynamic design featuring a smiling Yuri Gagarin (Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; 1934-1968), the Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who was the first man in space on 12 April 1961, in a CCCP / USSR helmet with a statue of a rocket and man behind him on the dark purple and blue background with red rockets...
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Russian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Pan American Poster To Paris France Pan Am Airline Travel Art
By Jean Carlu
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster - To Paris Pan American World's Most Experienced Airline - featuring a colourful design by Jean Carlu (1900-1997) depicting a lady holding a basket of flowers and a rose in her hand with illustrations of seating outside a cafe and famous historical monuments in the background including the Eiffel Tower flying a French flag at the top, the Notre Dame cathedral, Cleopatra...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
'The Thomas Crown Affair' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1968
Located in Devon, GB
Starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunawaye, Norman Jewison's stylish 1968 caper 'The Thomas Crown Affair' saw debonair bank executive and multi-million dollar heist mastermind Thomas C...
Category
Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper, Linen
Original Vintage Motorsport Poster Dessau Motorcycle Car Race Germany Midcentury
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motorsport poster for the Dessauer Motorrad-u. Autorennen unter der Losung: Sportler, vorwarts im Kampf fur Frieden, demokra...
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German Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
North by Northwest
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster from the first release of this Classic Hitchcock film.
This film starred Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The art work on this poster is uniq...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Niagara
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese press sheet poster for the 1953 film “Niagara”.
This American film noir was directed by Henry Hathaway, and stars Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten and Jean Peters. It...
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Japanese Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Sport Poster Ski Austria World Winter Student Games Prague
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport ski poster for the 10th World Winter Student Games Vienna and Semmering Austria - X Всемирные Зимние Студенческие Игры Вена И Земмеринг австрия - held f...
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Czech Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
French Art Deco Chimney Sweep Lithograph Poster
Located in Atlanta, GA
French Art Deco chimney sweep lithograph poster, France or Brussels, circa 1930s. It measures an impressive 63" height x 48" width. It has been professio...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Royal Town Of Sutton Coldfield Sutton Park UK Art
By Michael Reilly
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield Sutton Park featuring stunning artwork by Michael Reilly (b.1898) depicting a couple enjoying a walk on a hill past trees in the park with a calm reflective lake and fields in the distance, the stylised title text and information below - Over 2500 acres of open space Gorse Heather Woods Moorland Lakes Boating fishing bathing & golf - with the distances indicated on the side. Dating back to the 9th century Sutton...
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British Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage Winter Sport Travel Poster Vallee D'Aoste Italy Aosta Skiing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage winter sport travel poster for the Aosta Valley in Italy - Vallee d'Aoste (Italie) Courmayeur Gressoney La Thuile Pila Ayas Champoluc Valtournance Breuil - featuring...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Original Vintage WWII Poster Salut A La Resistance Et En Avant! Forward Fighters
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two poster - Salute to the Resistance and forward / Salut a la Resistance et en avant! - featuring artwork of resistance fighters in the foreground, two me...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Located in London, GB
Original American film poster for the 1969 Classic western staring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katherine Ross. This size poster would have been used outside the cinema at the time o...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
Materials
Paper
"Marauders Always Attack!" Vintage Wwii Army Air Forces Poster, 1943
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a vintage WWII U.S. Army poster of a Martin B-26 Marauder bomber plane. The poster was published by the Recruiting Publicity Bureau in 1943. The poster depicts a B-26 fr...
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American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Posters
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Paper
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