Album: Retro Travel Posters

Description: Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial rises in white columns under a purple dusk sky, rendered in a vintage travel ad style with the memorial's name lettered below the stairs.

Description: WASHINGTON reads the bold text above THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL in this green-bordered print. Cherry blossoms frame the domed memorial and its reflection in a mid-century travel-ad style.

Description: Pink azalea blooms frame the National Capitol Columns in this design for the National Arboretum, lettered 'National Arboretum, Washington D.C.'

Description: The White House glows under a night sky with its fountain and flagpole lit up front, labeled 'WASHINGTON D.C.' in retro travel-ad lettering. Columns and a green lawn frame the presidential landmark.

Description: Come see the Charters of Freedom, the slogan on this National Archives Museum design, with American flags and sunlit columns framing the building in mid-century travel-ad style.

Description: Flags and bunting frame the presidential box and stage inside Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., site of Lincoln's assassination in 1865. A portrait of George Washington watches over the historic interior, marked as a National Historic Site.

Description: An elephant statue stands guard before the green copper dome of the National Museum of Natural History, with the Smithsonian's banner line 'Discover the natural world' lettered beneath a clear blue sky.

Description: The National Air and Space Museum's glass facade and star-topped spire anchor this Washington D.C. piece, while a jet cuts a contrail across the blue sky above. The mid-century travel-ad style turns the Smithsonian stop into a bold graphic callout.

Description: Visitors gather beneath an orange sky at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, with the Washington Monument rising behind the bronze-clad building and the line 'Celebrate the journey' anchoring the design.

Description: The Delta Queen paddles down the Mississippi under the slogan STEAMBOAT VACATIONS ON AMERICA'S GREAT RIVERS, her red paddlewheel churning and black smoke trailing from the stack. Passengers line the deck as green hills roll past in this mid-century riverboat travel illustration.

Description: This mid-century travel poster captures the Cape May-Lewes Ferry crossing Delaware Bay with a classic car lineup and a lighthouse in view. The bold text CAPE MAY - LEWES FERRY and CROSS-BAY HIGHWAY CONNECTION anchor the design in a vintage tourism-ad style.

Description: This mid-century poster puts the Golden Gate Ferry Service front and center as it crosses San Francisco Bay beneath the red span of the Golden Gate Bridge. A white catamaran cuts through the water while sunset colors wash over the hills behind it.

Description: Niagara Falls' Maid of the Mist boat tour gets a 1920s illustrated treatment, with raincoat-clad passengers riding the mist-soaked steamboat past the roaring falls. Bold lettering spelling out MAID OF THE MIST and NIAGARA FALLS - CANADA anchors the scene in early travel-illustration style.

Description: By the 1950s the Maid of the Mist had traded its steamboat smokestacks for a sleek white tour boat, still ferrying raincoat-clad sightseers into the spray below Niagara Falls. Bold mid-century lettering spells out MAID OF THE MIST and NIAGARA FALLS - CANADA over the falls' green rapids and rocky cliffs.

Description: This modern poster puts the Maid of the Mist boat front and center as it closes in on the thunderous spray of Niagara Falls. Passengers in yellow raincoats brace against the mist while NIAGARA FALLS - CANADA anchors the graphic below a green sky.

Description: Orange and white, the Staten Island Ferry carries passengers past the Statue of Liberty toward the Twin Towers and Empire State Building on the Manhattan skyline. This mid-century travel poster preserves the original slogan, NEW YORK CITY MUNICIPAL FERRIES, 24 HOURS A DAY.

Description: This vintage-style illustration puts the American Queen front and center, her red paddlewheel churning white wake beneath twin smokestacks and flying American flags. The bottom text reads AUTHENTIC STEAMBOAT VACATIONS ON AMERICA'S RIVERS, framed by forested riverbanks under a golden sunset sky.

Description: Log cabins line Gatlinburg's Main Street beneath pine-covered ridges in this mid-century travel poster, fog drifting through the mountain folds behind them. GATEWAY TO THE SMOKIES anchors the design as this East Tennessee town's welcome sign to visitors.

Description: Pigeon Forge's old water wheel mill takes center stage in this mid-century travel poster, set against misty Smoky Mountain peaks and a rock-strewn stream. Warm sunset light and drifting fog give the Tennessee forest its mountain-retreat postcard charm.

Description: Memphis leans into its river city identity here, ON THE MISSISSIPPI spelled out beside a paddlewheel riverboat docked at the cobblestone landing under the Hernando de Soto Bridge. Warm sunset tones give the skyline that classic mid-century postcard glow.

Description: Strollers cross a wooden bridge strung with lights at Broadway at the Beach, colorful shopfronts glowing over the lake below. This mid-century-style travel illustration catches Myrtle Beach's busiest entertainment strip as South Carolina's sunset settles over the water.

Description: A paddlewheel riverboat cruises past Branson's rooftops and open-air amphitheater in this mid-century travel poster, sunset light warming the Ozark hills behind it. HEART OF THE OZARKS banners the scene, a nod to the hills that gave this Missouri music town its name.

Description: Long Beach gets the mid-century travel-poster treatment: red smokestacks on the RMS Queen Mary anchor a harbor scene with a lone sailboat cutting past the docks. Palm trees and a warm sunset finish it off in classic California postcard style.

Description: This vintage-style shipping poster puts the Titanic's four funnels front and center with WHITE STAR LINE and RMS TITANIC lettered across the design. The route lines SOUTHAMPTON-CHERBOURG and QUEENSTOWN-NEW YORK mark the doomed liner's actual 1912 crossing in classic maritime advertising style.

Description: The RMS Queen Mary sells transatlantic passage in bold red smokestacks and the promise of EXPRESS SERVICE TO EUROPE. Rolling ocean waves and a warm sunset capture the Cunard line's 1930s heyday in classic travel-poster style.

Description: DOLLYWOOD and SEVIER COUNTY, TENNESSEE mark this mid-century illustration of the park's rustic wooden mill, turning water wheel, and covered bridge. Green Smoky Mountain peaks and a soft blue sky frame the scene in bold, classic travel-ad color.

Description: An acoustic guitar with pearl inlays and fretboard takes center stage under red curtains and spotlight beams, arched gold letters spelling NASHVILLE above MUSIC CITY USA. This mid-century travel poster style channels the stage-lit glow of the city's honky-tonks in warm, bold colors.

Description: A wooden sailboat passes a white lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard's shore under a coral sunset. The island that's pulled sailors and summer crowds off Cape Cod for generations.

Description: The curled shape of Cape Cod needs no caption, but the red and white lighthouse and a lone sailboat help. Named for the fish that first drew sailors to this Massachusetts peninsula.

Description: SAIL EXPLORE DISCOVER: a tall ship schooner and a steamship cross paths in Boston Harbor as the Custom House Tower's clock rises over the skyline. New England's oldest port, still working.

Description: LITTLE ODESSA BY THE SEA: delis with Cyrillic signs and striped umbrellas along the Brighton Beach boardwalk. Brooklyn's Russian and Ukrainian shore, dressed for summer.

Description: A wooden speedboat runs past the Gold Coast's colonial mansions, manicured shoreline trees rolling by. The stretch of Long Island that inspired Gatsby's gilded age estates.

Description: THE FIRST TOWN IN THE FIRST STATE: the red-hulled Lightship Overfalls sits in the canal against a golden sunset, colonial houses lining the shore. Founded by Dutch settlers on Delaware Bay in 1631.

Description: A wicker-basket bicycle leans against a fence rail beside Nantucket's Sankaty Head Lighthouse, a whale silhouette cut into the cliffside scene. Biking the bluffs is as much a tradition here as the whaling history that built the island.

Description: One of the few spots on the East Coast where you can watch the sun rise and set over water, marked here by a WWII fire control tower against a warm Delaware sky.

Description: THE NATION'S SUMMER CAPITAL, a nickname earned from decades of DC visitors: strolling couples fill the boardwalk in front of the landmark bandstand.