Unique Join The Gym, 1920s YMCA Poster - Fitness for Woman

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 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...

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...

Original vintage Austrian advertising poster for rubber snow shoes manufactured in Russia by Rezinotrust USSR Moscow. Colorful dynamic design showing a man wearing blue trousers and blue and white socks hiding under a large black umbrella from the rain and snow striding forward to show the sole of his right shoe with the trademark and logo of the Russian manufacturer on it, against a bright orange background with stylized text on the right and below, in German: Echt russische Schneeschuhe Galoschen / Real Russian snow...

Original vintage Soviet sport propaganda poster promoting ice skating for good health and physical exercise - On your skates! Great illustration showing a family ice skating, the smi...

Large original vintage Austrian advertising poster for Salamander shoes featuring a great Art Deco design primarily in blue and grey of a fashionably dressed young lady wearing an el...

Original vintage poster entitled The Friendly Road published by and for the Bureau of Social Education National Board of the Young Women Christian As...