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Digging through the Encyclopedia of Chicago History, we came across these gorgeous posters and have become obsessed with them. Enjoy.
L: WPA syphilis poster, 1930s. R: WPA vaccination poster, 1930s.
L: Poste for DuPage County Centennial Police-Fireman Exhibition, 1939. R: Poster for dedication ceremony for Ida B Wells Homes, 1940.
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Does anyone have a good source for buying these kinds of posters?
Those are great!
Rainfall.com sells reproductions of lots of old posters, maps, and other things. The WPA section has a lot of posters in the same style, some of which are even Chicago-related: 1, 2, 3.
Awesome. There's a lot of other vintage-y design inspiration at Monoscope and Aisle One.
Thanks!
Perhaps they should have used the old syphilis one to sort of shake things up when the 'Syphilis is Back' campaign was going strong...
You get get them on the Library of Congress's (how do you punctuate that one?) website. I bought this one a few years ago and love it:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?wpapos:8:./temp/~ammem_LYCt::
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g05158
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48791
Adler and Buckingham are my favorites
There's some of these kinda of things at Eclecticity (spelling?) in Lincoln Square.