Yale Center for British Art

Title:

[Promotional material for Shell Oil Company].

Published / Created:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1940]

Physical Description:

1 folded sheet [8 panels] : color illustrations ; 15 x 35 cm, folded to 15 x 10 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
HD9560.5 .S54 1940 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Prints

Notes:

Advertising material for Shell Oil Company. Folded card with movable flap through center which changes the illustration. Part of movable flap missing.

"Find the spirit of our age (on page 8)" which reveals an illustration of a car being filled up with gas.

"This this was the spirit of prehistoric times and this the spirit of the Medieval - Not to mention he Elizabethian - and Georgian - or Victorian what then is the spirit of our Age?"

Subject Terms:

Shell Oil Company. | Advertising -- Pictorial works. | Advertising -- Petroleum industry and trade.

Form/Genre:

Flaps. | Ephemera. | Accordion fold format (Binding).

Contributors:

Bellew, P., illustrator.