Poster Mountain

Most of the previous blogs have focused on the conservation side of our work here at Poster Mountain. Depending on how damaged a poster is and the kind of look a client wants, some posters never go to our restoration department. Most, however, receive at least a little bit of restoration. Others get more attention, especially when there is a lot of paper missing or damage to the image. The poster that is the topic of this week's blog is a World War I recruitment poster from 1917. The poster was only partially complete mounted to a board and was missing a large section at the top. It should read, "Join the Air Force and Serve in France".  Pictured: Image before conservation and restoration work began. Robin and John carefully removed the poster from the board, washed and then mounted the poster to linen before it was sent to restoration. Antonia had a considerable amount of prep work to do because we had to add back in about a 1/4 of the paper. Just a quick side n

On Friday, November 11th, John presented at the 12th annual Magic History Conference at the Beverly Garland Hotel in North Hollywood. This conference is one of the most prestigious magic conferences and John was so thrilled to be invited to talk. John and I spent several days working on a presentation that included an introductory speech and a power point presentation. We have recorded John reading this speech and converted the power point into a movie to make it easier to take in the presentation as a whole. Please forgive us if the sound and some of the transitions are not perfect, we are still learning how to record clean sound and make movies.  All of the images are from our database and all are projects that we worked on. The focus is on magic posters, but John covers everything from advertising to war. We have also included the individual photos down at the bottom for you to look through at your leisure. We hope you enjoy this sample of Poster Mountain's work.