Marseille, porte de l'Afrique du nord / Roger Broders ; PLM. – Vintage Print
![Marseille, porte de l'Afrique du nord / Roger Broders ; PLM., Paris : Lucien Serre & C., [ca. 1930] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/11/110d17e8af76-L.webp)
(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 Marseille, porte de l'Afrique du nord / Roger Broders ; PLM. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Marseille, porte de l'Afrique du nord / Roger Broders ; PLM.
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Marseille, France's principal Mediterranean port, is shown here as the gateway to North Africa, and the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) railway commissioned the poster to promote that route. Roger Broders, one of the best-known designers of interwar travel posters, created the image, which Lucien Serre's Paris firm printed as a color lithograph around 1930. Posters like this were displayed in stations and travel offices to encourage passengers to continue by sea. The harbor and ships in the subject are central to its appeal, since they represented the journey itself.
| Created / published | Paris : Lucien Serre & C., [ca. 1930] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 100 x 62 cm. |
| Genre | Travel posters French 1920-1940.Lithographs Color 1920-1940. |
| Notes | Stamp: Printed in France. |
| Subjects | Harbors--France--Marseille--1920-1940. Ships--France--Marseille--1920-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,032 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223281 |
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