Advertising poster for Haldy's "Precision Watches", which claims that they adjust the sun while Father Time looks on.

To make new things from old, let's recycle"

"Provincial Exhibition of Decorative and Industrial Arts"

Vintage advertising poster for a suntan lotion or oil.

Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, had the Dutch franchise for "OPEKTA", a pectin product for making jams and jellies. The annex to his office became the hiding place for 8 Jews during the Nazi occupation, 1942-1944.

From the illustrated book, with text and commentary by A. M. Mucha.

The cover page is here: flic.kr/p/2jKbhw7

And the first section is here: flic.kr/p/2md2fze

"Oh, how ugly he is!"

From France

"A Telephone for Every House"

"Festival / Conference on the Rhône, Geneva, Switzerland"

From the illustrated book, with text and commentary by A. M. Mucha.

The cover page is here: flic.kr/p/2jKbhw7

And the first section is here: flic.kr/p/2md2fze

From the illustrated book, with text and commentary by A. M. Mucha.

The cover page is here: flic.kr/p/2jKbhw7

And the first section is here: flic.kr/p/2md2fze

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers :.

Paris :Chez Denné le jeune ... [et] chez Perlet ...,1806..

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40478034

From the illustrated book, with text and commentary by A. M. Mucha.

The cover page is here: flic.kr/p/2jKbhw7

And the first section is here: flic.kr/p/2md2fze

"L'Allemand, meschant soudart, Meurtrier, traitre et pillart..."

"The German, evil soldier, Murderer, traitor and plunderer..."

"Le Levrier, Shoe Cream"

Menu (in French) for a state dinner hosted by Tsar Nicholas II in 1897.

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"General Exhibition of the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague". Interesting that the poster has text in Czech (left column) and French, but not a word of German -- in spite of the fact that in 1891 Czechia is part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.