Rajah
Public-domain coffee history, restored and ready to print. Each piece is sourced from an institutional archive — Wellcome, Google Cultural Institute, Museu Paulista, Library of Congress — cleaned, color-balanced, and prepared in three print sizes. We name the artist, the year, the printer, the holding institution, and (when the iconography asks for it) the historical framing the work belongs to.
Read the catalog → $19 · digital download · 3 print sizes includedFeatured from the archive
Six pieces from the catalog — spanning Belle Époque advertising, French Impressionist café-concert painting, Brazilian plantation landscape, Rococo coffee scene, and 19th-century Dutch domestic-genre print. The full archive (335 pieces) sits behind these.
What this archive is
Coffee Posters is the coffee-subject vertical of a small archive-led print shop. We curate, restore, and annotate visual material that has been in public domain for decades but rarely seen outside institutional catalogs: Belle Époque coffee advertising, 19th-century botanical plates, Ottoman café lithographs, Brazilian plantation paintings, domestic European genre work.
Every piece comes with a short historical write-up — artist, year, printer, original size, institutional source, and the framing the work belongs to. No invented anecdotes. No “ritual” copy.
How the files work
- $19 per piece. One-time purchase, no subscription.
- Three print sizes per piece, selected for the work’s resolution and reading scale.
- JPEG, sRGB, 300 DPI where the source supports it.
- Personal and commercial display use (your home, your café, your roastery wall). Resale of the file itself is not permitted; the underlying work is public domain.
- Try two pieces free before buying — we send the same files we sell.