N.p. Coca-Cola, Circa mid 1950s. Vintage Coca-Cola concession poster, circa mid 1950s. A three color, unused poster, published by Coca-Cola, featuring an illustration of a Black football player about to pass a football. Made for use in concessions and to display game schedules at American high schools. Notably there is no face mask on the helmet in the illustration, a......

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946-1947. Original 3-color promotional folder advertising a double bill of "Notorious" (1946) and H.C. Potter's "The Farmer's Daughter" (1947). A caricature of producer Joseph E. Levine, the event producer, is shown at the top of the left, and the pairing is billed as the "Next SRO Star-Studded Package." Designed to promote the package to.....

Beverly Hills, CA: The Where's Poppa Company, 1969. First Revised Draft script for the 1970 film.Based on the 1970 novel. A stark black comedy in which Gordon, stuck caring for his senile mother, becomes increasingly frustrated with his inability to have a love life due to her interference. The first of Carl Reiner's early directorial efforts intended to push the.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1944. Original preliminary advertising concept art sketch 1944 family drama, winner of two Academy Awards. Executed in graphite on onion skin paper and mounted on to white paper stock. Includes three finished printed ad mat proofs. A single draft of a confident ad with a superlative claim, boasting the studio's "sincere belief" that "National.....

N.p. National Screen Service, Circa 1950s. Collection of 89 vintage placards, circa 1950s, used as sample advertising slides (i.e., dummies) at drive-in theaters by National Screen Service regional salesmen. The placards would have then been photographed, sometimes illustrated or otherwise manipulated, then turned into slides to be projected on the drive-in movie screen. National Screen Service (NSS) controlled the distribution.....

Various cities: Various, Circa 1950s. Collection of 140 vintage photographs of department store window displays, 9 of which are double weight. Eight photographs dated 1948, four dated 1949, with the rest being circa 1950s. Nearly two thirds with stamps on the verso or other identifying information for the photographers or photography studios. Roughly half of the photographs feature window displays.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1944. Vintage reference photograph of the original poster for the 1944 film musical, based on the 1937 Broadway musical "Room Service" by Allen Boretz and John Murray, previously adapted in 1938 as a Marx Brothers vehicle. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Holograph ink notation to the recto, image not affected. Lightly toned.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, circa 1944. Original preliminary advertising concept art sketch for the release of the 1944 Universal horror film from the director of "The Wolf Man." Executed in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, and mounted on to white paper stock. 11.5 x 16 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to right margin and.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Small archive of letters from the Hal Roach Studios archive, all relating to the promotion of the 1937 film. 11 letters in all, dated throughout 1937. Very nice content, 3 of which are address to the Hal Roach Studios, having to do with the promotion of Constance Bennett in the film. Noteworthy among these are letters.....

Los Angeles: First National Pictures, Circa 1926. First Edition. Vintage exhibitor annual produced by First National Pictures, promoting their forthcoming film releases ("52 Hits and 7 Specials") and advertising their contracted "featured players," which in 1926 included Norma Talmadge, Mary Astor, Anna Q. Nilsson, Lloyd Hughes, Jack Mulhall, and a young Joan Crawford.In 1928 control of First National would pass.....

Los Angeles: Capitol Records, Circa 1970. Vintage one-page newspaper advertising pull-out supplement for British jazz-rock band If's second studio album, "If 2," released in 1970 on Capitol Records in the US and Island Records in the UK. 9.75 x 15.25 inches. On newsprint. Lightly creased to the top left edge, else Near Fine.

New York: Henry Miller's Theatre, 1929. Original flyer for the 1929 play "Journey's End," which premiered at Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway on March 22, 1929 and closed on May 17, 1930, for a total of 485 performances. The first US production of the play after its smash hit at at the Apollo Theatre in London, which starred a young.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1919. Vintage color glass slide advertisement for the 1919 film, the first film released by the newly minted United Artists, co-founded by star Fairbanks with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith. A wealthy American gets embroiled in the politic turmoil of a fictional European monarchy, only to find he is secretly the heir to.....

Alhambra, CA: Delta Associates, 1949-1976. Large archive of original art, sketchbooks, illustrations, and advertising production materials, and a collection of catalogs, brochures, booklets, flyers, and magazines, all relating to the Southern California off-road motorcycle scene (and motorcycles in general) from Lynn Wineland and his "Delta Associates" design and advertising firm. A voluminous collection featuring dozens of pieces of production materials.....

France: Various Publishers, 1957-1959. Collection of thirteen French publisher and distributor catalogs, including a small book-shaped calendar, advertising toys, novelties, and home goods. Most are full-color folding brochures. From the archives of Maryse Martres, in original manila envelope with her name on the front in holograph ink. Martres (Martin) was a prolific French actress who was later involved in press.....

Buffalo, NY: Bob Moog, 1982. Production catalog from 1982, including the recently released Memorymoog, Source, and Rogue models, as well as the Moog Liberation, the first commercially produced keytar. A contemporary look at available synthesizers at the moment when they would begin to dominant popular music. Three pages. Three hole punch to the left edge, affecting some of the text.....

N.p. N.p., 1988. Vintage 1988 cardboard standee for holding American Express application forms for college students, featuring Lou Reed. Part of a extended campaign for American Express, beginning in 1985 with ads featuring Reed in his leather jacket proclaiming "How to buy a jacket, and a of a brief phase as a corporate pitchman by the iconoclastic musician, which also.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1944. Seven original preliminary advertising concept art sketches for the release with Gloria Graham's first credited role. Title written as both "Blonde Fever" and "Blond Fever" between ads. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on a single sheet of onion skin paper, mounted on to white paper stock, some with annotations at the.....

Miami, FL: N.p., Circa 1940s. Archive of sales material and design documents for the James O. Tice Company, a custom mechanical scoreboard firm active in the 1940s in Florida. Included in the archive are 19 vintage black and white photographs (including 14 original photographs and 5 xerographically duplicated photographs), 2 manuscript design documents, 1 original blueprint and 1 xerographically duplicated.....

Various cities: Various Publishers, 1979-82. Collection of three catalogs compiling hundreds of listings of releases by small and independent record labels from 1979 to 1982. A treasure trove of information on the underground music scene of the era. Included in the listing are:"Great bands, small labels," published by "Gorilla Beat" magazine, Mulheim, Germany, 1979. "Small Labels Catalogue 1980," published by.....