Bill Poster

This journal was the official publication of the United Billposters’ Association. This scarce journal provides an interesting insight into poster and outdoor advertising from the perspective of the printer and the distributor. In addition to trade news, the issues contain an eclectic range of articles including Pigs as Advertising Mediums, An Australian View of Highly Coloured Posters, Indecent Posters, Objectionable Hoardings, Billposting in India, the Nude in Art, Street Lamp Advertising, the ‘Cute’ Billposter, the Pictorial Poster, Jules Cheret’s Posters, The Horrors of Newspaper Advertisements, Celestial Advertising (projecting advertising messages onto clouds), Railway Station Name Boards, Omnibus Advertisements, American Billposters’ Associations, the 1896 Poster Show in Philadelphia, The Poster Artist at Home containing an interview with Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, ‘Poster Parties’ and Electric Signs. Like many trade journals of this period, The Bill Poster is extremely scarce and was published monthly by the United Billposters’ Association during the period 1887-1910. It was published by William Farrow Taylor Bury St. Edmunds, 1888-91.