Collection: ORIGINAL VINTAGE 1900s POSTERS

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the poster was already a major part of everyday visual culture. Advertising, travel and entertainment all relied on large-scale printed imagery, with lithographic posters bringing strong colour and illustration onto streets and into public spaces.

This collection brings together original posters dating from the 1900s. With material of this age, the individual sheet matters enormously: printing, artist, issuer, restoration and condition can tell you far more than the decade alone. We record those details wherever they can be established.

For more on how we assess older paper, see our condition & grading guide.