Description: A patriotic US Flag design with the Civil War armored battleships Monitor and Merrimac in the background. From a circa 1908 postcard, professionally restored and enhanced by Matchbook Graphics for the finest-possible image reproduction on your shirt, print, or other merchandise.
Description: During World War One, Victory Boys and Victory Girls clubs were organized in the US to raise five dollars per child for the United War Work Campaign. The kids were between the age 12 and 20 and received a pin when they turned in a pledge card. They had to work for the pledge and not solicit it from their parents or others, and many exceeded the pledge amounts. This was the first time in U.S. history that children were part of an organization that helped the war effort.
Description: The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was an agency established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The goal was to eliminate cut throat competition by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of fair practices and set prices during the Depression. The NRA, symbolized by the Blue Eagle, was popular with workers. Businesses that supported it put the symbol in their shop windows and on their packages. Although not mandatory, businesses that did not display the eagle were very often boycotted.
Franklin Roosevelt 1933 National Recovery Administration Eagle Sign T-Shirt
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Description: When new president Patrick B. McGinnis took control of the company in 1954, he hired Herbert Matter as the railroad’s design consultant. Matter created the bold slab-serif logo used in combinations of black, white and red, on everything from locomotives and cars to pamphlets and menus. Whatever your preference, I have the variation that's right for you.
Description: Lancaster County PA was home to Penn Dairies, Inc., with the trade name now known as Pensupreme. Their ice cream was a very popular treat in the area, and the company also owned several convenience stores around the county. Now it is a pleasant memory. This design for the darker color shirts.
Description: Adapted from an early decal. For more than 40 years, Frontier Town, a Wild West theme park, was a destination for families from across the country. Visitors traveled back into living history visiting the hearths and homes of a pioneer village, enjoying a rodeo and finding themselves in the midst of a hold-up by outlaws on horseback. Do you or a friend remember this roadside attraction at Exit 29 on the Northway?
Description: Pollepel Island in the Hudson River in New York. The principal feature on the island is Bannerman's Castle, an abandoned military surplus warehouse. New York Central Railroad provided passenger service along the east bank of the river, and this is the view from near Breakneck Mountain towards Cornwall and Newburgh in the distance. A fantasy poster design created exclusively by Matchbook Graphics from vintage source material.
Description: Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts and Art Deco movements. The Gill family moved to Capel-y-ffin in the Black Mountains of South Wales in 1924, and it was here he began working for the Golden Cockerel Press run by Robert Gibbings. In all Gill made some 280 blocks and plates in preparation for a dozen books. Eve was originally published in 1926, and used as an illustration in the Engravings of Eric Gill in 1929. The image is now in the public domain.
Eric Gill 1926 Art Deco Nude Silhouette Design EVE, for light backgrounds T-Shirt
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Description: Charles P. Limbert was an American furniture designer. He is considered one of the most successful furniture leaders in the history of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the Arts and Crafts movement in America. The furniture that bears his name is highly sought after and seriously collected to this day. Painstakingly adapted from the logo used by the company from 1902-1905, this is the perfect design for the Arts & Crafts furniture fan.
Description: The Central Railroad of New Jersey, also known as the New Jersey Central or Jersey Central Lines, was a Class I railroad with origins in the 1830s. It was absorbed into Conrail in April 1976 along with several other prominent bankrupt railroads of the Northeastern United States. This "ball" logo from a 1909 publication was used relatively unchanged until 1945, when it was replaced by the Statue of Liberty logo.
