Vintage Ads

680 items in gallery.
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In the coming era of socialism. Illustration shows police breaking up a demonstration by capitalists who are turning the tables on the socialists by demanding their rights. Also shows a capitalist rally in a Fifth Avenue Dive, socialist thugs pressuring a priest for delivering sermons dee-cidely capitalistic, a socialist dismayed by a newspaper headline that states Heinrich equal rights son of socialist leader joins capitalistic ranks, and a poor showing for capitalists in the Election Returns B
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The invasion of England. Illustration shows German soldiers and officers invading England by means of hot-air balloons and other types of airships, also shows German emperor William II dictating Fall of Albion an epic poem by the Kaiser to his secretary, and war correspondent Richard Harding Davis writing How to Conduct a Campaign.
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Poster for the musical 'Destruction of the Titanic' words by C. H. Dutton and Music by Etta B. Server. Dated 1912
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The hand-writing upon the wall. Napoleon, Josephine, French soldiers and women seated at feast with dishes Bank of England, St. James, Tower of London, and Roast Beef of old England. Napoleon looks in horror at hand of Jehovah pointing to words in sky: Mene , tekel upharsin. By James Gillray.
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Fort Marion National Monument, St. Augustine, Florida circa 1938 .
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Bremen.
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L. Candee & Co., Rubber Works, manufacturers of all kinds of rubber boots & shoes. New Haven, Conn. established 1842.
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Barbour's flax thread works. Patterson, New Jersey.
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Woodcut image showing Chinese religious practices. The bottom illustration features Raijin, the Japanese god of thunder. Dated c1895.
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Faust, the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
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Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn.
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Colour, woodcut, print on hosho paper, of the Japanese navy department testing balloons in front of the American Consulate. Artist, Yoshitora Utagawa (active 1850-1870).
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L.G. Kinne Iowa's next governor ca 1883.
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Books are weapons Read about... 'The negro in national defense,' 'Africa and the war,' [and] 'Negro history and culture' at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library .
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American Soap Company circa 1851.
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Belgium: Art Nouveau advertising poster for Absinthe Robette, lithograph, Henri Privat-Livemont, 1896
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Our Bill of Rights is everybody's business, by Stanley Dersh (1924-1993). Colour, halftone, poster format. Print of an early American courtroom scene labelled 'Trial by Jury' with a man, possibly a jury foreman, standing next to the jury box, presenting a statement;another man sits in the foreground, at a desk on which are books, papers and quill pens, he is resting his right arm on the railing that separates him from the jury, and, like the man speaking, he holds a paper in his right hand.
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Harrison's flavoring extracts. Philadelphia ca. 1853.
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Print (poster), lithograph, colour of a family watching in distress as their farm is burned and animals confiscated. TEXT: Bolshevism brings distress, adversity, hunger and destruction.
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Colour lithograph, poster format, advertising Harry Houdini's first novelty in 20 years. Houdini (1874-1926) was a Hungarian-American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. Dated 1914.
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Grand Canyon National Park, a free government service circa 1938 .
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Harrison's musk cologne. Philadelphia [musk deer ca. 1857.
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The W.P.A. Federal Theatre Negro Unit [presents] Macbeth by William Shakespeare circa 1936-1938.
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c.1915 MidPacific carnival, hula girl w/ flowers, poster art, Diamond Head bkgd B1424
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Rear view of a group of people standing in line
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Harrison's flavoring extracts. Phila. ca. 1868.
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Lithograph, colour, print, poster for a charity bazaar for the widows and orphans of German, Austrian, Hungarian and their allied soldiers at Madison Square Garden, New York on March 11th, 1916. Poster by the artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953) showing pennants and flags above an entrance.
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Gilbert & Parsons, hygienic whiskey--for medical use ADVERTISEMENT circa 1860.
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Meuse Beer; Bieres de La Meuse. Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). Colour lithograph. Executed in 1897. 60 x 39cm.
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Japanese work on hosho paper, woodcut, colour. Title of work: Banquet at a foreign mercantile house in Yokohama, shows an English merchant seated at a table and being waited on by a Chinese man and a Thai cook during a banquet at a mercantile house in Yokohama, Japan. Artist is Sadahide Utagawa (1807-1873).
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American Railway Scene At Hornellsville 1874 Currier & Ives(1834-1907 American) Lithograph Private Collection
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Hoofland's celebrated German tonic water will cure dyspepsia, liver complaint, debility, indigestion circa 1860s advertisement.
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Poster, colour lithograph, print shows a monster an anarchist (?), holding a knife and a bomb. Text : Misery and destruction follows anarchy. Artist, Julius Ussy Engelhard (1883-1964).
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The wash stand at Tenno Shrine by Hokuba Teisai (1771-1844). Woodcut, colour, print shows two women and a child outside a small bathhouse at the Tenno Shrine.
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Dr. Pierce's family medicines.
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Aquatint engraving depicting Josiah the First. The caricature depicts the wealthy American politician and civic reformer Josiah Quincy I (1710ñ1784), by William Charles (1776-1820) Scottish-born engraver who immigrated to the United States. Dated 1813
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Passports to adventure circa 1939.
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France: Art Nouveau advertising poster for Bieres de la Meuse, lithograph, Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), 1897
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Poster for Mother Goose, advertising a pantomime. Date: circa 1930s
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Advertisement for the Sunbeam Talbot 80 & 90 cars, whose 'streamlined beauty graces any occasion'. A cream model is pictured parked at a quayside. Date: 1949
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Protect your parks circa 1938.
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Job Alphonse Marie Mucha(1860-1939/Czech )
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Advertisement for a six cylinder, 16hp Singer 'Six', published in 'The Tatler', 1931. Date: 1931
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Goodyear Blimp in flight
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Ice Cream Shop
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1930S Elderly Bearded Man In Overalls Smoking Pipe Standing In Doorway Of General Store
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Weimar republic, Notgeld from Muritz, Germany, 1921. Shortage of metal for coins, in Germany, after the First World War, resulted in a large number of unofficial notes (Notgeld)
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Typical interior design of a family sitting room
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Buckingham Fountain on Chicago's lake front, world's largest and most beautiful illuminated fountain ... 1939 .
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I pledge allegiance and silence about the war circa 1941-1943 .