Gallery of beautiful vintage travel posters

Hamish sez, "A few years ago I found a collection of over 200 35mm Kodachrome slides of travel and marketing posters from the 1950's and 1960's. I received a nice Epson scanner for Christmas so I dug them up and scanned them all in. If only the travel posters of today were so stylish and exotic! " Link (Thanks, Hamish!)

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maras

The text on the poster above says “You’ll find strength (silu) in cheese (syru)” (Czech) :)
Sara

These are gorgeous! Thanks so much for sharing, Hamish!
Hamish Grant

Hey folks! Thanks for the link, BB!

NB about the scans – I processed them down to 800pixels on the longest side deliberately – to do a higher resolution would have meant a lot more retouching and cleaning up – these slides are dusty and scratched up! Anyway there’s been a lot of interest so over the next little while I’m going to keep an eye on which posters are the most viewed/favourited and then process them to higher resolutions… Anyone who wants to see the 800 pixel size can add me as a contact and I’ll add them and then they can see “all sizes”…
cisco

It pales in comparison to the shear volume of photos Hamish has put up, but I’ve got a few photos of some vintage travel posters from the 50s in an old blog entry: http://vintage-stuff.blogspot.com/2006/11/vintage-travel-posters.html

I wish Hamish had uploaded higher rez scans.