The first post-war Christmas in America and the rush is on to reconnect the customer with their peace-time duty to consume. American ind...

Postcards like this illustrate just why in the decade preceding the Great War, Berlin was so frequently held up as an exemplar of the mo...

This elegant book was published in 1946 by the Paris Métro to mark the centenary of the Ligne de Sceaux – a suburban service, one of the...

In the flickering light we see Prince Peter Kropotkin at the controls while Lenin stokes the fire. The mighty locomotive steams headlong...

Possibly the most unscrupulous and irresponsible advertising campaign in the history of persuasion was when the American tobacco industr...

In Vienna, in 1745, Jean-Etienne Liotard made a pastel portrait that later would become known as Das Schokoladenmädchen or the Chocolate...

This is a follow-up to a post dated 19 September 2015 . Alongside the work he supplied to Saturday Evening Post , Bingham had a successf...