Off to Hawaii. Imagery from Matson Lines, from their pamplets listing 1936 and 1938 travel offerings. They cruised back and forth to Hawaii and also sailed for Fiji and Samoa.
Category: Vintage advertisements
Advertisements that sing summer in any summer. Doesn’t matter what year. Watermelon themed catalog covers from Reuter’s Seeds, a New Orleans, Louisiana supplier of seeds, bulbs, plants, and other gardening products. 1910s-1930s.
“For Style and Fit Call at the Golden Eagle Clothing House, Minneapolis, Minnesota.” Business trade cards made to look like painter’s palettes each with its own little scene. From a Minnesota archive.
Fruit and flowers from a 1930 seed catalogue from J. V. Bailey Nurseries, Dayton Bluff Station, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Collections of the United States Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Promotional ephemera connected with the l’Exposition Internationale de Paris which happened in 1937.
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Daydream your way back into a decadent something. More Illustrations from the 1930 brochure for the French ocean liner”L’Atlantique.” Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, publisher. Collection of the Wolfsonian at Florida International University.
Promotional posters for events connected with the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin. Various German graphic designers. There were many very talented graphics people in Germany at that time.
More Illustrations from the 1930 brochure for the French ocean line”L’Atlantique.” Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, publisher. Collection of the Wolfsonian at Florida International University.
Trolley cards sponsored by Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum. American. ca. 1951. Otis Shepard, graphic designer (1894-1969). Did posters too.
Posters promoting various forms of transportation, whether by rail, truck or bridge. American. Leslie Ragan, graphic designer (1897-1972).
