Posters Gallery

A Girl on the Stage by Owen Hall

Promotional postcard for A Girl on the Stage by Owen Hall; music Ivan Caryll. First produced as The Little Cherub at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 13th January 1906. It closed and reopened 5th May 1906 with the new title, but only lasted four more weeks. This image is for the tour to the Grand Theatre, Hull on 1st June 1906. Cupid and the four girls are in front of the theatre. The shows title in red is on the poster high up on the building Date: 1906

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Fragments magazine poster by Bruce Bairnsfather, 1919

Poster advertising Fragments magazine, published by The Bystander and edited and contributed to by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather whose cartoons in the Bystander during the First World War were hugely popular. Price at 2d., Fragments was aimed at an ex-serviceman readership and boasted a circulation of 7 million within a few months of its launch. His character, Old Bill is pictured in a sailor suit asking, "Are ye comin to see the Prince off, Bert?" Bert was one of Old Bill's sidekicks in the trenches and his comment is about the Prince of Wales tour to North America that year. Date: 1919

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Y Darn Papur

Y Darn Papur. Recruitment poster, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee as Poster No. 15. Welsh version of The Scrap of Paper - Prussia's Perfidy'. One of thirteen printed posters produced in Britain between August 1914 - March 1916. Date: 1914

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

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