Vintage Ad (advertising) posters for the F4U Corsair from Vought, Goodyear and Brewster

Throughout their history, posters have been a significant means of mass communication, often with striking visual effect. Some of them are extremely clever advertising (ad).

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Collectively, these pictures of persuasion, offer a wealth of art, history, design, and popular culture for us to understand. The poster is a familiar part of our world, and we intuitively understand its role as propaganda, promotion, announcement, or advertisement.

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There are an impressive array of aviation posters from the Corsair F4U from Vought, Goodyear and Brewster aircraft, mainly covering the World War 2. The focus is primarily on advertising for aviation-related products and activities.  

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The posters in the collection represent printing technologies that include original lithography, silkscreen, photolithography, and computer-generated imagery. The collection is significant both for its aesthetic value and because it is a unique representation of the cultural, commercial and military history of aviation concerning the F4U Corsair.

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The F4U Corsair is one of aviation’s true works of art.

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The collection represents an intense interest in military flight, during the significant period of its technological and social development around the age of World War 2.

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The presentation of the ads is structured in alphabetic order of the different Company’s.

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