Magic Posters

About Vintage Magic Posters

The 'Golden Era of Magic' (1890-1930) generated thousands of colorful posters of all sizes, advertising impossible feats of famous magicians like Kellar, Houdini, and Carter the Great. Generally produced through lithography printing (multiple sizes of the same image were made), these posters featured magicians performing a specific trick, along with their name and a short blurb about the show.


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Guest Column: Collecting Vintage Magic Posters

What are vintage magic posters? Posters of magicians printed by the stone lithography method qualify as vintage… [more]

An Interview With Poster Designer David Lance Goines

I don’t collect posters. I don’t collect anything. I started making posters one at a time by hand in high school ju… [more]

An Interview With Vintage Movie Poster Collector Sam Sarowitz

Our first book was called "The Independent Movie Poster Book" and that was published by Harry Abrams. The focus was… [more]



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MagicGallery.com

MagicGallery.com

This collection of hundreds of posters, cards and portaits from the 'golden age of magic' (1890-1930) is organized … [read review or visit site]

London Transport Museum Posters

London Transport Museum Posters

A must-see collection of 5,000 vivid, colorful British posters from the early 1900s onward. Browse by artist (over … [read review or visit site]

Circusmuseum.nl

Circusmuseum.nl

Step right up and check out almost 8,000 beautiful circus posters, photos and prints. Assembled by longtime Dutch c… [read review or visit site]

Fillmore and Avalon Collection

Fillmore and Avalon Collection

Wish you'd visited San Francisco in the late 1960s? Get a quick hit with this comprehensive collection of psychadel… [read review or visit site]

USSR Posters

USSR Posters

Ben Perry's Flickr photoset showcasing almost 1500 Soviet propaganda, advertising, theatre and movie posters from 1… [read review or visit site]

New York Public Library

New York Public Library

The New York Public Library's impressive Digital Gallery offers free access to over 500,000 historical images inclu… [read review or visit site]

The American Memory Project

The American Memory Project

This amazing Library of Congress site includes about a hundred photo and document collections (see complete list) o… [read review or visit site]


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