Among the many advertisements for tempting domestic and exotic locations in Friday's Rare & Important Travel Posters auction, is a particularly fine selection of images promoting Chicago.
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| Ervine Metzl, Chicago, 1924. |
From 1924 are two images for Chicago Rapid Transit intended to draw visitors to the city's attractions: Ervine Metzl's evening view of buildings obscured by trees, which is reminiscent of the Beggarstaff brothers' cut-out collage style; and Willard Frederic Elmes's unusually large poster depicting a statue of war hero and politician John Alexander Logan that sits in Grant Park.
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| Hernando G. Villa, Chicago World's Fair 1933. |
There are also five posters for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, which had the theme "A Century of Progress." These include Weimer Pursell's exceedingly rare Wings of a Century, which was designed to promote the Railroads on Parade pageant; Hernando G. Villa's design featuring a male figure with a laurel wreath on his head, indicating that it may have been a repurposed image from the 1932 Olympic Games; and a poster of the popular Skyride attraction by an unknown artist.
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| Unknown designer, Skyride, 1933. |
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