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It is warmer down below. Travel in comfort by Underground / Austin Cooper. – Vintage Wall Art

It is warmer down below. Travel in comfort by Underground / Austin Cooper., [London : The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd., 1924] — vintage poster
It is warmer down below. Travel in comfort by Underground / Austin Cooper., [London : The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd., 1924]. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Step back in time with It is warmer down below. Travel in comfort by Underground / Austin Cooper., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Winter cold is the selling point of this 1924 lithograph, whose title, *It is warmer down below*, invites Londoners to trade the street for the tube. Austin Cooper designed it, and the shelflist card in the record ties it to Electric Railway House, the company's headquarters. In the 1920s the Underground's publicity office commissioned artists to turn routine travel notices into bold color posters, and this one shows the network presenting its trains as a warm refuge from the weather. The Dangerfield Printing Company produced it in London.

Created / published[London : The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd., 1924]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 100 x 63 cm.
GenrePosters British 1920-1930.Lithographs Color 1920-1930.
NotesFrom shelflist card: Electric Railway House, 1924. Title from item.
SubjectsLondon Underground Limited--Public relations--1920-1930. Subways--England--London--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,577 × 1,925 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-225254

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