Vintage Ads

Imagery from the history of advertising in the United States and Europe.
750 items in this gallery.All Vintage Ads
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1746-21117841
Woodcut image showing Chinese religious practices. The bottom illustration features Raijin, the Japanese god of thunder. Dated c1895.
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1746-21117551
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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1746-21117466
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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1746-21117641
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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1746-21117494
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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1746-21117446
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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1899-18723015
Gorton's famous Minstrels ca 1905.
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1899-19136420
Belgium: Art Nouveau advertising poster for Absinthe Robette, lithograph, Henri Privat-Livemont, 1896
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1746-21117462
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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1899-18722708
Stop and get your free fag bag Careless matches aid the Axis circa 1941-1943.
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1899-18669137
Passports to adventure circa 1939.
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1899-18667959
Fort Marion National Monument, St. Augustine, Florida circa 1938 .
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1899-18669029
Protect your parks circa 1938.
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1746-21117490
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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1899-20228129
Biplane and Orange Grove.
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1746-21117483
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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1760-16089
c.1915 MidPacific carnival, hula girl w/ flowers, poster art, Diamond Head bkgd B1424
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1746-21117541
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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1746-21117443
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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1899-20228131
San Francisco Orange.
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1899-18669044
I pledge allegiance and silence about the war circa 1941-1943 .
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255-42895
Rear view of a group of people standing in line
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4220-20406011
Advertisement for Kestos lingerie, showing a carefee woman in a swimming costume. Date: 1932
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866-12287
Meuse Beer; Bieres de La Meuse. Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). Colour lithograph. Executed in 1897. 60 x 39cm.
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1899-18978209
L. Candee & Co., Rubber Works, manufacturers of all kinds of rubber boots & shoes. New Haven, Conn. established 1842.
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1899-18977285
Bremen.
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1746-4081
World War I 1914-1918 British recruitment poster. 'Men of the Empire! Rally Round the Flag ......'. Trophy of flags of the allies against the backdrop of the British flag.
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1746-21112096
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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1899-18669129
Don't waste water circa 1941-1943.
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1746-21122303
Typical interior design of a family sitting room
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1899-20228510
Frontier.
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255-31819
Facade of a store
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1899-19136421
France: Art Nouveau advertising poster for Bieres de la Meuse, lithograph, Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), 1897
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1899-18669062
1930s or 1940s Foreign Trade Zone poster .
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1746-21109503
Cartoon depicting President Alcala Zamora of Spain 1936
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1899-18977273
Poster for presentation of 'Punch & Judy' at the Sioux City(?) Art Center, showing bust illustrations of the two characters.
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4220-20395509
Help your nerves with SANATOGEN - the true tonic food Date: 1923
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1035-20540765
Oakland, California: 1948. The Fox Orpheum Theater in Oakland featuring a sneak preview of "Sitting Pretty" and "The Tender Years".
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4048-3245
Coffee, Uncle Sam's Coffee, illustrated with Uncle Sam seated on a cannon barrel whittling with his foot on a torn rebel flag, circa 1863.
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1746-21114081
Poster for the 1954 horror film 'Them' staring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, and Joan Weldon. Dated 1954
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1746-21108453
Patent medicine label for Mother's remedy for morning sickness by Thos S. Yard & Co. Dated 1852
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1746-21123339
Snakes and ladders board game; Edwardian; English circa 1905
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1899-20227907
New York World's Fair.
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4220-20401884
Advertisement for a six cylinder, 16hp Singer 'Six', published in 'The Tatler', 1931. Date: 1931
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4048-655
World War I American war savings stamps poster by James Montgomery Flagg, 1918
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475-404
American Railway Scene At Hornellsville 1874 Currier & Ives(1834-1907 American) Lithograph Private Collection
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4220-20399007
Advertisement for Dunlop tyres: It is a significant fact . . . to be noted especially by motorists . . . that, for the sake of safty in public transport, DUNLOP TYPRES are almost universally specified and are fitted to the vast majority of public conveyances on the road. 1937
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4220-4372
MESSALINA, EMPRESS wife of Emperor Claudius
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4220-4325
NATHAN MEYER ROTHSCHILD 1st baron Philanthropist, statesman and public worker member of English branch of international banking family
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1899-20228813
Boy and Girl walk with Dog.