Almost every public library has a strong online presence, and city library sites are normally spectacular. Boston Public Library has some collections on flickr, including 351 travel posters from the 1920s and 1940s, when the average person could seriously travel if he wanted because of railways, luxurious ocean liners, and good highways. "Travel agents and ticket offices during this period were festooned with vivid, eye-catching posters, all designed to capture the beauty, excitement and adventure of travel." Now these same posters make nostalgic and artistic statements about a time long gone.
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