Vintage Posters

[TXsignguy]

I'm looking for a source for hi res vintage posters and artwork like the one in the link below.


http://www.art.com/products/p10123479-sa-i2042646/coppa-ginori-auto-race-florence.htm

I see a lot of sites offering this exact print for sale and was hoping to find the source file. Is there a company like Getty that manages these vintage images?

I've already done a search of this site and in the past it looks like this never got an answer. Hopefully someone has some insite now.

 

[Pat Whatley]

http://www.freevintageposters.com/

 

[TXsignguy]

Pat, yes that's one of the first sites that comes up when you search for vintage posters but it's only has a small selection and doesn't have any of the popular posters. Mostly just the second and third tier quality posters.

 

[rjssigns]

What are you trying to accomplish? IMO most of the good original art has been scarfed up by print shops.

You may be further ahead to hire a starving artist or two and produce unique, copyrighted work in the same vein.

Something else to consider:

A local college professor quit teaching because he makes so much money selling prints of unique old photos. The photos come from the Library of Congress archives. He makes enough that he has a full time researcher in D.C. scouring for product.

 

[Bretbyron]

Try Dover. Or, I've found stuff in college online libraries and maybe on archive.org.

 

[nikdoobs]

If you can't find what you are looking for on stock image sites you're probably gonna have to buy the poster and scan it in.

 

[TXsignguy]

The client doesn't want original artwork, they have a few particular pieces in mind that they have seen on sites like art.com. They want it as a very large prints in their office.