Posters

American Vets, London, 1918

JF Ptak Science Books  Poster  #4

[98 dpi version of the 600 dpi image offered for sale.]

This image--from a collection that I've mentioned previously on this blog--shows a group of wounded-in-action American Doughboys recuperating in London on 4 July 1918.  There were at least six of these soldiers aboard this bus, touring, being invited to celebrate their independence day in London, their flag--and a big one at that--draped across the bow of the upper deck of the bus. 

There were be about 204,000 American soldiers wounded and 116,500 killed during WWI, the end of which was in sight at this point, just five months away.  These were some of the survivors of the American share of war casualties.  Almost all other nations fared far worse (see below)

 

 This photograph is available as a poster, as follows:

• 13x19 inch photographic matte paper
• printed from a 600 dpi scan with pigment inks
• original image cleaned to remove nearly all detracting defects
• orders processed within 48 hours

 

Price:  SOLD OUT , postage paid in the U.S., delivered in a tube

A Deep and Happy Red--the Young Communist League, 1937

JF Ptak Science Books   Quick Post--Poster Series 3

In the wide and deep collection of social history pamphlets and ephemera that exists here cheek-and-jowl with the history of science material I have found one of the truly great pieces of cover art/design--it stands easily in the top percentile for overall design, and it does get its message across very quickly.  It is also evidently rare, as I can find no other copies of the thing.  It certainly seem to be the first time it has appeared on the intertubes.

[Below is 150 dpi version of the image for display purposes--the final version is 600 dpi and a 5meg file.]

• This cover art is available as a poster as follow:
• 13x19 inch photographic matte paper
• printed from a 600 dpi scan with pigment inks
• original image cleaned to remove nearly all detracting defects
• orders processed within 48 hours

 

Price:  SOld Out, postage paid in the U.S., delivered in a tube

Industrial Robot in as a Redening Menace

JF Ptak Science Books   Poster 2

This striking image is the cover of a pro-union pamphlet leveled at the Australian iron-producer, B.H.P. (Broken Hill Proprietary, a 150-year-old firm), and published in 1943 by the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia. The great social observer and artist Thomas Nast was very aware that much of his "readership" couldn't read, and so he made his work (which was usually text-heavy) completely understandable as a purely visual message.  So too for artists like the anonymous person who contributed this great cover--there is no question about what might be in the pages of the pamphlet...

The following image is a 96 dpi version of the working 600 dpi copy below, which fills a 25meg file.  I've also included a detail from the larger version to give a good idea of the high detail and brilliance of the 13x19 inch reproduction.  

This is a detail from the 600 dpi scan--click for an even larger image of this sample:

• This cover art is available as a poster as follow:
• 13x19 inch photographic matte paper
• printed from a 600 dpi scan with pigment inks
• original image cleaned to remove nearly all detracting defects
• orders processed within 48 hours

Price:  Sold Out, postage paid in the U.S., delivered in a tube

A Case of the Red Wobblies, 1933

JF Ptak Science Books      Poster Series 1

[This is a 1 meg version of the 16 meg finished version of this cover art.]

• This is the first of the newly-reinstated Poster Production part of this blog.  I did many of these some years ago, though they were mostly technical drawings of the B-17 (G!) and such.   There are many in the pipeline--there should be one new entry per day.  

This is the fantastic artwork for the cover of the pamphlet The General Strike for Industrial Freedom which was printed in Chicago in January 1933 by the Industrial Workers of the World (the Wobblies).  The IWW was pretty far left--okay, very far--and was founded in 1905 by Eugene V. Debs, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood, Daniel De Leon,  Thomas Hagerty, Lucy Parsons,  and others.  By the '30's membership in the organization was off probably an order of magnitude, its heydey more "dey" than "hey", its flash gone. 

• This cover art is available as a poster as follow:
• 13x19 inch photographic matte paper
• printed from a 600 dpi scan with pigment inks
• original image cleaned to remove nearly all detracting defects
• orders processed within 48 hours

 

Price:  SOLD OUT, postage paid in the U.S., delivered in a tube