Le Touquet: la mer - la forá́et, golf 3 parcours – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare vintage poster captures Le Touquet: la mer - la forá́et, golf 3 parcours in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Le Touquet: la mer - la forá́et, golf 3 parcours
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Few resort posters of the period promise as much as this one: sea, forest and three golf courses in a single destination. Le Touquet-Paris-Plage was laid out on France's Opal Coast in the early 1900s, largely by English developers, and it became a fashionable seaside retreat for Parisians. The Compagnie du Chemin de fer du Nord, the railway serving the region, commissioned posters like this one to sell rail travel to the resort. Marton's color design, dated 1936 on the caption card, reflects the interwar taste for bold graphic advertising aimed at holidaymakers.
| Created / published | Pairs : Chemin de fer du Nord, 1936. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 100 x 61 cm. |
| Subjects | Color poster by Marton. Promotional goal: Fr. E3. 1936. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Compagnie du Chemin de fer du Nord. II. Title. Sports--Golf; Railroads; France--Le Tourquet. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,101 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176239 |
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