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C'est à la France que le monde doit ses ailes, Clement Ader, Premier décollage du premier avion, 9 octobre 1890.
Original poster for the historical first take-off of the first plane. Translation: " It is to France that the world owes its wings, Clement Ader, First takeoff of th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Le bon Quinquina - Robert Dubonnet Sport.
Advertising lithographed poster for Le bon Quinquina - Robert Dubonnet Sport.
Place & Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Limonades sodas - Fontenoy.
Advertising lithographed poster for Fontenoy.
Place & Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Viandox - Produit Liebig.
Lithographed advertising poster for a Viandox brand, printed in a bottle shape, by IMP. MAUSS, DEHALLE & URBAN - PARIS.
Place & Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Loriot.
Lithographed poster for Loriot, a chocolate and confiserie French brand. A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the artist and graphic designer Robert Pich...
Place & Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Prof. Dr. A. Krause, Neuer Handels- u. Verkehrsglobus, Verlag Paul Räth.
Art-Deco German Table Globe, on a scale of 1:38 600 000, designed by Prof. Arthur Krause with 30 centimeters in diameter, made by the company Paul Räths, Nachf. KG, Leip...
Place & Date: Leipzig, Paul Räth, ca. 1930
North and South America At-A-Glance.
A clever device for demonstrating the statistics of each country, the Area, Population, Population per Sq. Mile, Highest Elevation, Principal River, Currency, Capital, Fo...
Place & Date: New York & London: International At-A-Glance Chart Co. 1931
United States At-A-Glance.
A clever device for demonstrating the statistics of each state, the Area, Population, Highest Elevation, Principal River, Capital, railroad Mileage, Date Entered Union, P...
Place & Date: New York / London: International At-A-Glance Chart Co. 1931
Histoire Socialiste.
Text includes “Imp. Centre de Propagande, des Républicains Nationaux, 102, rue Amelot, Paris (XIe), ou l’on peut se procurer cette affiche. Cette affiche ne peut êt...
Place & Date: Paris, 1931
McCormick's Map of the World.
Colorful promotional map of the 20th century spice trade.What better way to showcase the global composition of a multi-national company than with a world map? This lovely...
Place & Date: United-States, 1931
Japanese Stereotype Map of the World from 1932 Share Hitome de wakaru Manga sekai genjō chizu. At a glance: Cartoon Map of the Current World Situation. 目でわかる 漫画世界現状地圖
An extraordinary satirical map of the world was seen through Japanese eyes in the early 1930s as Japanese imperial ambitions strengthened. The map was published as an edi...
Place & Date: Tokyo, Showa 7, or 1932
(Publicity poster) Amer Besset Sans Rival.
Original chromo lithographed in-store display for alcoholic drink Amer Besset. Printed by Joseph-Charles in Paris.
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1933
Carte routière de l'Indochine. Des kilomètres en sécurité sur Goodrich.
Advertising poster for the brand Goodrich, showing a map of Indochina.Goodrich Corporation is a former American company specializing in civil and military aeronautical eq...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1934
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Hataman cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45060-250x250.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Hataman cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Hataman Cigarettes from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. It d...
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Red Lion cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45068-250x250.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Red Lion cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Red Lion Cigarettes brand from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithograph...
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Jintan cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45070-250x250.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Jintan cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Jintan Cigarettes brand from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography....
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Coat Clark British company.](/uploads/cache/45080-250x250.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Coat Clark British company.
This poster, an advertisement for Coat Clark British company from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithograp...
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] [ Google translate: Liae divison public specialized into the middle age of China.]](/uploads/cache/45085-250x250.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] [ Google translate: Liae divison public specialized into the middle age of China.]
This poster, an advertisement from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. It depicts a beautiful woma...
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
(Publicity.) Thé Lyons. Renommé pur son Arome.
Original chromo lithography in-store display for Lyon's tea in Belgium and France. In 1902 the Lyons family started their little tea business on High Street in Dublin, ne...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1935
Philippines Islands.
Pictorial map of Philippines Islands, from the famous illustrator, Ruth Taylor White and published in "Our USA: A Gay Geography".Ruth Taylor White was among the...
Place & Date: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1935
Mexico.
Unusual poster for Mexican tourism, published by Asociacion Mexicana de Turismo, The artist is unknown and the design is surreal and modern at the same time.The popularit...
Place & Date: Mexico, ca. 1935
A Hysterical Map of the Yellowstone Park. . .
A funny 1936 pictorial map of Yellowstone Park, that was 'hatched and scratched' by the American printer and humourist Jolly Elmer Lindgren. This wonderful map covers the...
Place & Date: Spokane, 1936
Quinquina Bourin Force l'apetit donne de la force.
Advertising poster for the French liquor brand Quinquina Bourin. Printed by De la Vasselais, Paris. Jacques Bellenger designed this original vintage poster in 1936. This ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1936
Air France dans tous les ciels.
Rare travel mini-poster made by Roger de Valerio in 1935. This example is one of the first advertising poster made by Air France. Roger de Valerio (1886 - 1951) is a Fren...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1936
French Line CGT Poster.
French Line CGT Poster showing the Normandie cruise ship travelling from Southampton to New York, advertising an express luxury service on both the Ile de France and the ...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1936
A Map and History of Peiping; formerly known as Peking; capital of provinces, princedoms and kingdoms since 1121 B.C. . .
The uncommon second edition of this very decorative and informative pictorial map of Beijing and surrounding areas whimsically illustrates the Forbidden City, essential e...
Place & Date: The Peiyang Press, Ltd. Tientsin-Peiping, 1936
Outposts of Empire. Central Australia.
A large colored lithograph by John Vickery (1906-1983), he was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Aus...
Place & Date: London, ca 1937
Outposts of Empire. Ceylon.
A large colored lithograph by John Vickery (1906-1983), he was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Aus...
Place & Date: London, ca 1937
![[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]](/uploads/cache/43680-250x250.jpg)
[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]
Front cover with color illustration of Moroccan male sheik and yellow lettering.Oversized magazine, features analysis of English justice, map of Herr Hitler's heaven (ful...
Place & Date: Chicago, April 7th, Vol.1 No.1 1938
Flood Map of Louisville, KY.
A scarce poster of the great flood of Louisville, KY in 1937. The blue coloring highlights the flooded areas of the city, while the red numbers show the depth of the floo...
Place & Date: Louisville, 1938
Carriers of the New Black Plague.
A powerful satirical commentary on totalitarian control of speech from the first issue of Ken Magazine. "Caught here in all their peculiar beauty by the soul searchi...
Place & Date: Chicago, 1938
Moscow.
Fantastic pictorial map of Moscow designed to draw tourists to the new Soviet Union.The cultural vitality of Moscow in the early years of the Soviet Union is the focal po...
Place & Date: Moscow, c. 1938
Cunard White (Queen Mary et Queen Elizabeth de la Cunard Line).
Rare original vintage travel advertising poster for Cunard White Star, the fastest Ocean Service in the World. Stunning Art Deco style illustration of the two majestic fl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1938
Nous vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts. Souscrivez aux bons d'armement.
We win because we are the strongest. Support good armaments". Quote by the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. French wartime propaganda poster. colored world map - ...
Place & Date: Pars, ca. 1939
L'Europe en Sept 1939. Ille terrarum mihi angulus ridet.
A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Brit...
Place & Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 1939
Indochine française. Carte N° 29.
School map of Indochina by Pierre Deffontaines Agréée d'Histoire et de Géographie Docteur es Lettres, published c. 1940 by "Librairie Hatier". Scale : 1:1 60...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1940
Map of Formosa. My hunting place.
An unusual hand drawn map of Formosa with an inset plan ‘My hunting place’. The map has the major cities marked in red ink and was made during Japanese occupation. Th...
Place & Date: Chiayi, Formosa, ca. 1940
The Greyhound Map of This Amazing America. . .
A large colored lithograph map of the USA, published by the Greyhound Corporation during the second world war. The map demonstrates where all the Greyhound bus routes int...
Place & Date: United States, 1941
British Empire Trade Map WWII Eric Fraser.
Original vintage World War Two period British Empire trade map poster with the stylised text in Spanish reading: For more than two centuries the British fleets have kept ...
Place & Date: England, 1941
Confiance... Ses Amputations se Poursuivent Methodiquement.
Propaganda map, produced under the NAZI collaborating Vichy French regime and designed to inspire revulsion and hatred of the English among the French, while frequently d...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941
![[Atlas] Images du Monde. Atlas Illustré.](/uploads/cache/44610-250x250.jpg)
[Atlas] Images du Monde. Atlas Illustré.
In original green publishers green covered cloth covers, complete with a contents table and 33 pictorial maps of countries of the world (including continents and a world ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1942
Rooseveld rekende verkeerd ! De vangarmen van De Dollarpoliep worden afgesneden. . .
An remarkable Anti-American Dutch World War II propaganda poster by Lou Manche, showing an pink octopus, representing the United States, with its tentacles being cut from...
Place & Date: The Netherlands, 1942
Spoorweg Museum Thans in Het Rijksmuseum.
Interesting Art Deco style poster for the Railway Museum, now in the Rijksmuseum. Carolus Adrianus Maria Thole (20 April 1914 – 26 March 2000) was a Dutch-Italian paint...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1942
Languedoc - Foix Roussillon.
Very decorative, informative map of Languedoc - Foix Roussillon region in south eastern France. Including the towns of Carcassonne, Montpellier, Albi, Toulouse, etc.The m...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Guyenne - Gascogne.
Very decorative, informative map of Guyenne and Gascogne region in France. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals. With a large compass rose in...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Manoeuvres executées du 7 au 13 mai sous le Commandement du général Koeltz,par le XIXe Corps d'Armée. . .
Poster by Gaston Ry [aka René Rostagny] (1902-1978) showing the allied manouvers in Tunesia. On May 4, 1943, the nineteenth CA offensive drew most of the German tanks to...
Place & Date: Alger, Bacconnier, 1943
Ce que les Anglo-Saxons ont perdu en Extrême-Orient.
Illustrated Vichy propaganda War & Propaganda poster showing a map of South East Asia, with Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, etc., among photos and explanations abou...
Place & Date: Paris, 1943
Carte de la Charte de L'Antique . . .
The rare French version of this decorative pictorial world map by MacDonald Gill. "This magnificent map drawn up while the Second World War still raged is already en...
Place & Date: London, Alf Cooke Ltd, 1943
Untitled wartime propaganda map poster depicting Roosevelt & Churchill stuggling between each other over the African Continent.
This powerful image shows US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a tug-of-war over Africa. This original war poster was created by ...
Place & Date: Paris, Bedos et Cie, 1942-1943
Madagascar.
Very decorative, informative map of Madagascar. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "Imprim...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Group of 21 watercolors of scenes in Iceland, included are vulcanos like Eyjafjallajokull, Öræfajökull, etc.
A group of water colors made during visits of the artist F. de Boungne to Iceland, among them are contemporary artistic impressions of the now world-famous volcano Eyjafj...
Place & Date: Iceland, 1933-1944
Après l'Algérie et la Corse Demain se sera la France.
Anti-Communist propaganda poster, realised by the French Vichy Government and the Germans in January 1944. Propaganda hostile to the liberators playing on the fears of th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1944
Singapore.
Chart of Southern part of Malaysian peninsular showing good detail on of Singapore. Map with legend and scale.
Place & Date: London, 1944
Indie moet vrij vecht ervoor.
War propaganda poster by Patrick (Pat) Cokayne Keely, distributed in the liberated South of the Netherlands, this poster concerned the Japanese occupation of Indonesia an...
Place & Date: London, J.Haworth / Brother Ltd, 1944
ADSEC in Action from Thames to Rhine.
A pictorial map showing the allied movement from London on 14 March 1944 thru the conquest of Germany. Showing the track from London along Bristol, crossing the British C...
Place & Date: London, 1945
MG Militair Gezag. De schakel tusschen de Geallieerden en Nederland.
Poster on the Allied military cooperation published by the Dutch Military Government. The poster has three colorful linked rings against a dark black and blue background....
Place & Date: London, James Haworth & Brother LTD, 1944 - 1945
Één doel - Één wil. (Koninklijke Marine)
Poster on the Allied military cooperation published by the Dutch Military Government. ¨Poster with stylised portraits of an infantryman, airman and sailor, turned in pro...
Place & Date: London, James Haworth & Brother LTD, 1944 - 1945
De Pen Gun Weekblad voor de Nederlandsche Strijdkrachten.
Poster designed by Willem Anthonie Oepts (1904 - 1988), published by the Dutch Military Government for "De Pen gun".The designer Willem Anthonie Oepts (1904 - 1...
Place & Date: Weert, Smeets, 1945
San Diego Bay. (Chart 5107)
Nautical chart of San Diego Bay of 1945. Printed in black, yellow and purple the "Seaward limit defensive sea area". The water area within the indicated limits ...
Place & Date: Washington, 1945
By the Dawn's Early Light.
Original 1940's WW II American liberation poster by Natacha Carlu, published by the French Press & Information Service, New York, N. Y.The poster shows a torch-bearin...
Place & Date: New York, French press and information service, 1945
![Mapa geral do Brasil / organizado pelos J. Carneiro da Silva e Pedro Voss. [Together with] Micro geografia do Brasil. [Together with] Pequeno Mapa do Brasil.](/uploads/cache/45466-250x250.jpg)
Mapa geral do Brasil / organizado pelos J. Carneiro da Silva e Pedro Voss. [Together with] Micro geografia do Brasil. [Together with] Pequeno Mapa do Brasil.
Large folding national map published by "Comp. Melhoramentos de São Paulo Industrias de Papel". Nova edicao revista 1946. Figurs all states. "Futuro Distr...
Place & Date: São Paulo, 1946
Langwasser Stanislau Neu Brandenburg Mei 1942 Juni 1945
Map met reproducties van crayontekeningen van Krijgsgevangenschap in Langwasser, Stanislau en Neu-Brandenburg, Mei 1942 -juni 1945.Uitgegeven april 1948 door het Minister...
Place & Date: Den Haag, April 1948
Kaart van Palestina voor oud- en nieuw testament behorend bij de weg met en naar Christus door Fr. M. Bellarminus.
Original vintage illustrated map wall map sized poster (166 x 118cm) of Palestine in the time of Christ featuring a map of the old and new testament of the Bible from The...
Place & Date: Utrecht, Sint Gregoriushuis, 1948
Du sang à l'aube.
Original lithographed poster for the Spanish movie "Blood at dawn" (1948) directed by Rafael Gil, based on the novel by Blasco Ibanez. Poster designed by Duccio...
Place & Date: Paris, 1948
Plan commercial de la Région Saïgon-Cholon.
Decorative publicity plan of Ho Chi Minh City, also known by its former name of Saigon and Cholon, prepared by Ngo-Trinh, surrounded by advertisements of local stores. Th...
Place & Date: Saigon, 1948
Key Map of Hong Kong Relative to Canton and Macao.
A nice folded map of Hong Kong and the surrounding areas. Produced by the British Crown Lands Survey Office just after WWII. Physical features are shown by contour. Railw...
Place & Date: Hong Kong, 1948
Coast to Coast.
A game board that features a map of the U.S. with a built-in spinner. Players travel a circular track around the map visiting landmarks as they go. A fun way to learn geo...
Place & Date: New York, ca. 1950
Ride the Roads to Romance along the Golden Coast and thru the Sunshine Empire of Southern California.
This striking touring map of Southern California was published in 1950 by the Roads to Romance Association in order to promote tourism to Southern California. It provides...
Place & Date: California, 1950
Official War map of Korea.
A large folding map of Korea published in the year of the outbreak of the Korean War, published by the Rand McNally Company. The map is extremely detailed and features a ...
Place & Date: America, ca 1950
Prosperity - The Fruit of Cooperation.
NATO poster for European Cooperation by Brian E. Dear. On the poster the slogan "Prosperity the fruit of cooperation". The poster is showing a hand holding an a...
Place & Date: Kühn & Zoon Rotterdam, 1950
FN HJAELP (Help).
Danish poster depicting a child sitting on a globe, threatened by a black snake. Designed by Aage Sikker Hansen and printed Andreasen & Lachmann in Copenhagen, Denmar...
Place & Date: Copenhagen, ca. 1950
Marshall Hjälpen.
Marshall Plan poster made by Gusta Aberg, showing barbed wire cut by pliers with slogan on pliers: Marshall Hjälpen This is one of the 25 finalists in the 1950 “Intra-...
Place & Date: Kühn & Zoon Rotterdam, 1950
![[Planisphère] - Crédit Lyonnais - Fondé en 1863. Afrique du Nord à Union Française.](/uploads/cache/44865-250x250.jpg)
[Planisphère] - Crédit Lyonnais - Fondé en 1863. Afrique du Nord à Union Française.
Original pictorial lithographed advertising poster showing the western part of Africa. Published by the French bank Crédit Lyonnais.Design by Lucien_Boucher who is a fam...
Place & Date: Paris, 1950
French Line First Class Bagages de Cale.
French Line First Class Bagages de Cale sticker for the journey Havre- Southhamptons New-York. It used to be stuck on luggage. The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique is...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1950
Réseau aérien mondial.
"Sur les ailes d'Air France, découvrez le monde à votre tour" lithograph poster from AIR France. A great mid-century design by Air France advertising poster b...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval Paris, ca. 1940-1950
Messageries Maritimes, sur tous les océans, pour tous les continents.
Original lithographed poster from the 1950s by Jean Desaleux. The poster has a blue background and a map of the continents and oceans. France is in the colors of the Mari...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1950
AIR France - Réseau Aérien Mondial.
Original pictorial lithograph advertising planisphere poster from AIR France. The poster has a black background. In the lower right below the border '016/P/AF Printed in ...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, ca. 1950
Tiger tamer.
Showing a tiger tamer with two tigers who apparently have more interest in his erotic, scarily dressed assistance.
Place & Date: ca. 1950
![Les Forbans [Board game]](/uploads/cache/49165-250x250.jpg)
Les Forbans [Board game]
Game board designed by Lucien Boucher, without any randomness, which is rare for that time. The board which is cut in four parts show a world map drawn by Lucien Boucher....
Place & Date: Paris, Perceval, ca. 1950
Renault Savane 1951 L. La nouvelle voiture mixte 6 / 7 places 800 kg moteur
Original advertising poster for the French car brand Renault, printed by Barreau.Read more about Poster History [+]
Place & Date: Paris, 1951