{"id":6397,"date":"2015-11-27T07:48:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T07:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2017-02-11T14:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T14:40:03","slug":"newly-discovered-rare-banking-posters-from-the-1920s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/advertising\/newly-discovered-rare-banking-posters-from-the-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWLY DISCOVERED
RARE BANKING POSTERS CIRCA 1920’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly discovered and exclusively available on Limited Runs is a rare set of banking posters dating from the\"\"<\/a> early 1920\u2019s. \u00a0These posters are part of an advertising campaign called \u201cDon\u2019t Spend It All,\u201d which were found in the archives of a now defunct print maker.\u00a0 These copies, which are available for the first time, are the original printer\u2019s proofs and\u00a0have never been circulated.\u00a0 It’s also believed that several images from this series may have never been used in the actual public campaign.<\/p>\n

The \u00a0“Don’t Spend It All” advertising campaign ran during the early 1920’s as part of an effort to convince the public to \"\"<\/a>open checking and saving accounts. Messaging varied from poster design, some choosing to educate and others to compliment the potential customer. \u00a0The posters were designed to make the consumer feel that opening an account would lead to a more prosperous future. The campaign targeted every potential member of the community from young to old. \u00a0Clever tag lines were used to encourage consumers to open accounts like “A bank account PROVES that you are worthy. \u00a0It gives you standing in our community<\/em><\/strong><\/a>” which were meant to imply one could achieve greater standing in the community with a bank account. \u00a0There is little subtlety with some of the poster designs and tag line as in this poster\u00a0“I’ll have plenty o’time to save – LATER, drifting along the easy way is the cause of many a man’s ultimate failure<\/em><\/strong><\/a>” which negatively implies that one is a failure without a bank account. \u00a0Ironically, later that decade,\u00a0it was these same banks that failed on a massive scale causing many account holders to lose their life’s saving and leading to the great depression. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Robber<\/strong><\/a>
\nArtist: M.O. Charleson
\nYear Printed: c. 1920’s
\nSize: 20\u201d x 29\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A Float On The Sea Of Life<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/span>Artist: unknown
\n<\/span>Year Printed: c. 1920’s
\n<\/span>Size: 20\u201d x 29\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Little is known about these posters which are a great example of stone lithography each with exquisit artwork. \u00a0When viewed in a historical context, the message contained in each poster becomes even more fasincating as they blatently display the morals and attitudes of their time.\u00a0 There are a total of 42 posters available from this series. Availability is limited with only single items offered.\u00a0 Once these are sold they may not come up for sale again.\u00a0 Don\u2019t miss out on this truly rare find.<\/p>\n

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Newly discovered and exclusively available on Limited Runs is a rare set of banking posters dating from the early 1920\u2019s. \u00a0These posters are part of an advertising campaign called \u201cDon\u2019t Spend It All,\u201d which were found in the archives of a now defunct print maker.\u00a0 These copies, which are available for the first time, are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6397"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8936,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions\/8936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}