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  • Vintage Posters as Valuable Investments  By : Viojieley Gurrobat
    Advertising posters have first become popular in the 1800s. The method of printing known as stone lithography was first developed for posters in this period. This printing method was an exciting form of art that brought out colors for people to see. Today, posters are available in all forms and sizes and are used for many different reasons.
  • Vintage Posters  By : Alison Cole
    A poster is a large bill, announcement, or placard, which is often illustrated. A poster could also be an artistic work, which is habitually the reproduction, of an original painting or photograph that is printed on a large sheet of paper. They are designed for posting in some public places for advertising or propaganda.
  • The GIbson Girl: Famous Pin Up Poster Art  By : William Cole Doggett
    The Gibson Girl is considered to be the fore runner to the collectible vintage pin up posters girl and the best representation of the feminine ideal. The foundation for the vintage pin up posters girl began as portrayal in the humorous pen and ink illustrations and stories penned by Charles Dana Gibson.
  • The Enigma of a Movie Poster  By : Mark McCallister
    Have you ever noticed how movie posters make heads turn, especially when they are not displayed at a movie theater? Do you feel that movie posters somehow connect you to a certain period of your life when that movie was shown in the theaters?
  • Poster Buying For Profit  By : Dominic Donaldson
    Posters have been used to convey information and images to an expectant audience since the advent of lithographic printing in the late 1800s. There is however a precursor to this era, albeit one of a less mass produced nature. Wanted posters in the Wild West, calls to arms during times of conflict, invites to nights of Nitrous Oxide indulgence to laugh your cares away; these were typeset adverts
  • Movie Poster Collecting  By : Teresa Frady
    There is a great deal of history behind movie posters and movie poster collecting. Jules Cheret, who created 2 movie posters in the 1890’s, was the artist given credit for creating the first movie posters. By the end of the first decade of the 1900’s, movies had become a great source of public entertainment.
  • Collecting Movie Posters Today  By : Dakota Caudilla
    Just like collecting stamps, collecting movie posters is a fabulous way to either decorate a place or keep a piece of the movie with you for a long time to come.
  • "Capes, Crooks and Cliffhangers: Heroic Serial Posters of the Golden Age" from Heritage  By : Pamela Ravenwood
    Do you recall the posters of the Golden Age's serial movies? Audiences from the 1930s and 1940s would come out to see these Hollywood Hits and the posters were colorful, action filled and intriguing.



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