The Science and Society Picture Library is the official print sales website of the Science Museum, National Railway Museum (see also post dated 30 January) and the Royal Photographic Society Collection. There are 40,000 images, divided into
Vintage posters,
Transport,
Photography,
Natural World,
Places,
Science & Technology,
Society and Wars, and
Other Collections. Each category is further subdivided. The Vintage Poster Transport section, for example, covers Railways, Aviation, Road Transport (shown in the screen shot), Water Transport and Other.
Ephemera can also be found through the search box. Advertisement, poster, trade, bill, programme, etc are all fruitful terms.
This is another excellent site where ephemera play their part in telling the overall story. The images are accompanied by descriptions, often providing context.
Browsing if free but this is, of course, a commercial site, selling high-quality prints of an impressive range of museum images in various sizes, framed or unframed, on canvas, etc. Users can log in, create My favourites, and a Basket.
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