a simple time of advertising, when it was high quality paintings of art

both found on http://bertc.com/subfive/flash/illustration_menu.htm

Some advertising posters for cars and trains

Pantasote was a material that tops were made of, at the bottom of the ad you can see they listed 134 car company makes they were ready to equip

 above, 1919, below, 1928

all found while browsing http://bertc.com/subfive/flash/illustration_menu.htm

some selected example pages from the 1909 Baker catalog

 What an odd looking car, that has the divider between the passengers and the driver, even with the top down.

found among hundreds of great old car catalogs at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=title_id_list:454055&slabel=Automobiles%253A%2520Manufacturers%2520catalogues%252E&sScope=images&sLevel=1