As important as rail during the so-called golden age were the great cruise liners, and one poster dating to around 1935 is ...

See images from “ Images of the Exotic: Posters from India from the Golden Age of Travel,” viewable online at Kapoor Galleries below. Donald Brun, SwissAir to India (1958).

Vintage travel posters showed idyllic getaways with bold graphics: scenes of sunny California, underwater adventures teeming with marine life, and the crisp Alps covered in snow. But with climate ...

Some of the posters go back as late as the 1890s. Many are valued at over a $1,000 – the most expensive is a travel promotion for Atlantic City valued between $10,000 and $15,000.

An art deco poster from 1939 (left) advertises the New Haven Railroad’s “snow trains,” which took skiers from New York to the Berkshires; a 1967 TWA poster features a vividly mod zeal of zebras.