Original vintage posters showcase: Vintage Posters: A Visual Chronicle of Mass Media
Vintage posters offer a rich visual archive of how mass media has been represented, utilized, and evolved over time. They serve not only as reflections of the aesthetic and design trends of their respective eras but also as windows into the ways information, propaganda, and entertainment were communicated to the public.Beginning in the early 20th century—with the rise of print and radio—through the mid-century’s Golden Age of Cinema and the powerful imagery of World War II propaganda, to the later decades shaped by television and, eventually, the digital revolution, mass media has played a central role in shaping public perception. Whether informing, educating, entertaining, or at times misleading, media has always had a profound impact on society.
Vintage posters have captured and echoed these shifts across time. From print to digital media, from social and electronic platforms to journalism, advertising, broadcasting, and filmmaking, these posters continue to represent the ever-changing landscape of communication.
We invite you to explore our members’ unique interpretations of how mass media is reflected in vintage poster art—past and present.
This vintage poster showcase was published 08/11/2025.
Hertz Radio Set 1886 for General Post Office, 1935 lithographic poster
Eric Fraser
Rennies Seaside Modern
The New York Times - get all the news and get it right
Kenneth Daniel Haak
PosterConnection, Inc.
“Atom / Sonderschau Im Deutschen Museum Munchen”
Anonymous artist
Mark J. Weinbaum Fine Posters and Prints
"Against Israel/Occupied Palestine Land Every Nation Has Right To Independant State"
E. Kazhdan
Mark J. Weinbaum Fine Posters and Prints
PARIS, Venice Simplon Orient Express, London.Paris. Milano .Venezia
Pierre Fix-Masseau (1905 - 1994)
Barclay Samson
British Advertising Poster “Marconi (Marconiphone)” , circa 1920’s
Anonymous
La Belle Epoque Vintage Posters, Inc.
French Vintage Mid Century Modern Advertising Poster for ‘Minerva Radio’, circa 1940
Anonymous
La Belle Epoque Vintage Posters, Inc.
French Advertising Poster ‘Radiola’, circa 1950
Rene Ravo
La Belle Epoque Vintage Posters, Inc.
French Advertising Poster ‘Philips Conductor’ by Fircsa, circa 1930’s
Fircsa
La Belle Epoque Vintage Posters, Inc.
Speed Your Message via Imperial Eastern Empiradio or Marconi (1941)
A. E. Halliwell
AntikBar
Radio Phono-Radio Foetisch Frères SA, circa 1930
S. Foetisch
Galerie 123 (Un deux trois)
Indicolor Plakate, 75 Jahre Jacques Bollmann AG Zürich, circa 1954
Donald Brun
Galerie 123 (Un deux trois)
La musique... c'est Philips, circa 1963
Raoul Eric Castel (ERIC)
Galerie 123 (Un deux trois)
La Montagne, le Grand Quotidien d'information du Centre, circa 1930
Robert Falcucci
Galerie 123 (Un deux trois)
Magyar Hirdeto 1968 Hungarian Media Company Advertising poster
Simonyi Emoke & Jozsef Pecsenke
Orson & Welles
Hungarian 1965 Womens' Newpaper YEarbook Advertising Poster
Istvan Balogh
Orson & Welles
