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Art Deco style poster for the film L'Inhumaine directed by Marcel L'Herbier, featuring abstract geometric shapes, stylized figures, and bold orange and black text.
World War I recruitment posters
Poster for the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, 1854.
Chromolithographic poster for the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, 1883.
Polish circus poster
Art Nouveau poster for the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts by J. Herbert McNair, Margaret Macdonald, and Francis Macdonald, featuring a stylized woman in flowing robes with floral motifs and decorative text.
Jane Avril, lithograph poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893; in the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, Albi, France.
Poster for the play Lorenzaccio
Jules Chéret
“The father of the modern poster”
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