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A wonderful collection of 19th century shipping posters on Flickr. (via quipsologies)
Update: That Flickr user also has several other interesting sets of images to look at, including book covers, typography of The Electric Company, Soviet children’s books, and Civil War posters.
The Yakov Smirnoff joke — In Soviet Russia, television watches you! — is more formally called the “Russian reversal”.
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