Vintage Posters

[ Travel | Circus ]

[ Advertising posters | World War I & II posters ]

W. Walter Calvert. "Visit Washington. Go By Train. Pennsylvania Railroad." [White House]. Pennsylvania Railroad poster, circa 1955. Approximately 40 x 25. Multiple creases and some repaired tears in the gold colored background at top of print.

Calvert, who lived in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was a commercial artist who was a member of the Art Directors Club of Philadelphia, Sketch Club, and was commissioned by the Bell Telephone, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia Electric Company and other companies to provide art work for their advertising campaigns. $550

CIRCUS POSTERS

• Maxwell Frederic Coplan. "Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. See You at The Greatest Show on Earth" ca. 1955. 40 x 26 (image) plus margins. Top left corner of margin missing not affecting image. [Vertical bust photo of Lou Jacobs (1903-1992) as a clown]. $575

  
  

• Maxwell Frederic Coplan. "Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. See You at The Greatest Show on Earth" ca. 1955. 26 x 40 (image) plus margins. [Horizontal bust photo of Lou Jacobs (1903-1992) as a clown]. $750

  
  

• Lawson Wood. "Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey." ca. 1943. 26 1/4 x 39 3/4. Repaired tears and holes in margin corners. [Amusing image of chimpanzees waiting in line to pay an elephant for admission into the circus]. $325

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