Fulbright Global Scholar Award in Chile: Day 11 - Saltpeter Posters

Early 20th century posters advertising Chilean saltpeter for markets overseas.
Used for gunpowder and fertilizer.
Video on saltpeter from the National Archives of Chile where I'll be next week.

Undated, unsigned poster. 75 x 53 cms. National Archive of Chile.

More about my Fulbright Global Scholar Award to Germany, Chile and Hong Kong
More about the Fulbright Global Scholar Award in general

100 Days on a Fulbright: Day 41: Chilehaus Marketing

Image from the PR page for Kontorhaus, http://www.kontorhausviertel.com/kontorhausviertel-hamburg

I'm giving a tour of the Kontorhaus this Friday. Become increasingly curious about how the marketing around the Chilehaus has always worked. Again see earlier posted poster of Chilehaus. This was based on a photograph of the building (below) was made by Hamburg-based photographer Carl Dransfeld and shaped the notoriety of the building. As Manfred F. Fischer, former head of the Hamburg monument conservation department, wrote: "It was not the Chilean architecture, but the photograph of [it] that had written art history. The invented reality was stronger than reality."

From Manfred F. Fischer: The Chilehaus in Hamburg. Architecture and vision. With 28 picture panels by Klaus Frahm, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7861-2299-7.

Chilehaus photo by Carl Dransfeld (1880-1941), taken between 1924 and 1938. 

100 Days on a Fulbright: Day 40: Hapag Lloyd Poster

Hapag Lloyd poster in the spirit of the previously posted Chilehaus poster. In the collection at the Peabody Essex Museum. http://www.pem.org/collections/1-maritime_art_and_history