Fans of vintage advertisements should check out this striking collection of historical posters digitized by the Library of Congress. This collection features over 900 posters created for the Work Projects Administration (WPA; originally called the Works Progress Administration) between 1936 and 1943, a Depression-era federal jobs program initiated to relieve unemployment and improve...

This digital exhibit begins with an illustration of a group of urbanites all in a state of advanced concentration as they consider the latest issue of Harper’s magazine. Created sometime in the 1890s, this particular poster by Edward Penfield was one of the first art posters published in America. This online collection from the New York Public Library is full of such images, and visitors will...