Vintage Color & Design: Circus Posters

Vintage Color & Design: Circus Posters

By evad // June 12, 2009
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Bizarre, Colorful, Surreal, and Beautiful! From the turn of the 20th century comes inspiration from bygone days. Here are some rare circus posters from the U.S. Library of Congress (you have to search for 'circus posters' if you want to see the collection). To see more circus posters check out this other collections here.


calliope WildWheelWhirlWonder


Cirque_DHiver Buffalo_Bills_W.W.

Written by evad

www.colourlovers.comDavid Sommers has been loving color as COLOURlovers' Blog Editor-in-Chief for the past two years. When he's not neck deep in a rainbow he's loving other things with The Post Family (http://thepostfamily.com/), a Chicago-based art blog, artist collective & gallery.
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potota

Posted Jun 12, 2009
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joanacarda

Posted Jun 12, 2009
Loved this post! Thanks potota, the museum is really great too.
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AlisonRobin

Posted Jun 12, 2009
Those posters are cool in retrospect, but by modern standards they're way too creepy for my tastes.
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stephen101

Posted Jun 22, 2009
I am such a fan of vintage design, i love the bold use of colours and Victorian fonts, its great to see we are reverting back to this style of advertising, make us remember the good times of design and the economy before the credit crunch!,

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