These distinctive sports car race posters were printed by Globe Posters Baltimore. Lore has it that Globe was founded over a card game in 1929. Norman Goldstein and Harry Shapiro chose its location by folding a map; the crease landed on Baltimore. Globe grew into one of the nation’s largest showcard printing companies, using large cylinder presses to print letterpress forms on top of day-glo screenprint backgrounds.
A Globe poster makes you look, with its bright inks and bold, hand-lettered type. Much of the credit for that style belongs to Harry Knorr, who worked at Globe for more than three decades, designing as many as a dozen posters a day.
Globe owned perhaps the world’s largest letterpress collection with over 20,000 letterpress cuts which is now housed at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I believe these sports car races posters to be reprints of the originals. Although some try and pass these off as original, I believe they are older vintage reprints, perhaps from the 1970s. They are on a medium card stock and measure 11×17 with incredible hand tooled graphics.
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