Download or read book American Poster Renaissance written by Victor Margolin and published by New York : Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 1975 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heydey of the poster was the last decade of the 19th century, when the poster came into its own as the perfect advertising medium, touting plays, periodicals, patent medicines, and a vast array of newfangled manufactured goods from bicycles to dynamite.