Boston Public Library
Away We Go!

Exhibitions

 

Away We Go!AWAY WE GO!
Vintage Travel Posters from the Collections of the Boston Public Library

Now through October 17, 2010
Central Library Copley Square, Changing Exhibits Room

Monday-Thursday: 9-9
Friday and Saturday: 9-5

The golden age of travel is brought to colorful life in a new exhibition of vintage travel posters at the Boston Public Library. Away We Go! invites visitors to journey back to the early twentieth century via some of the most beautiful and important vintage travel posters from the BPL's collection.

On display through October 17, the exhibition is organized as an epic trip around the world, starting and ending in Boston. Visitors will journey to twenty-eight hand-picked destinations, on six continents, on a globetrotting route nearly 45,000 miles long. Along the way, extraordinary, eye-catching posters are vivid reminders of the beauty, excitement, and adventure of travel during the 1920s-1950s, when a world of enticing destinations and new modes of transportation beckoned onlookers to journey to distant lands. Visitors will be able to create personal, take-away versions of their own travel posters and can also browse a special, travel-related book section located within the exhibition.

 

For a first look at our next exhibition, visit Greetings from Boston, a showcase of postcards celebrating our city.

Travel Poster ExhibitThis exhibition has been made possible through the generous support of

Merril

Browse the BPL’s entire collection of more than 350 vintage travel posters online at Flickr.com.

 

 

Thu.
May 20
6:00 p.m.

Abbey Room

Central LibraryLecture: Jim Lapides on the Golden Age of Travel Posters

Join Jim Lapides, owner of International Poster Gallery, for a fascinating look at the color lithographic poster and how it was used to promote pleasure travel to the public throughout this era of discovery and technological innovation. This lecture will feature slides of many of the most iconic posters of the period.

Mr. Lapides, a native of New Haven, Connecticut, graduated from Yale University in 1974 magna cum laude with distinction in the History of Art, specializing in Italian Renaissance art. In 1994, Mr. Lapides opened International Poster Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. He has lectured and written extensively on posters in addition to curating numerous exhibitions.