On the town: 100 years of London nightlife posters go on show

By Bus to the Pictures Tonight, by Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers, 1935, is on display at the London Transport Museum. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk A beautiful early design by Fred Taylor summons all the opulence of a night at the Sunday concerts in 1912. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk A suave, cinematic theme for Why Wait Till Later? by Marc Fernand Severin, 1938. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk A groovy 60s design for London after Dark, by Fred Millett, 1968. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk Electric theatre lights blaze, while the shape of the tube tunnel is reflected in the horizon in The West End is Awakening, by Ernest Michael Dinkel, 1931. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk Man Ray's famous poster, Keeps London Going, put London Underground at the centre of the universe, 1938. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk Aubrey Lindsay Hammond's modern print captures the elegance of the roaring 20s in To the Concert Halls, 1925. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk A contemporary addition to the collection: Hackney – Habitat of the Party Animal, by Nicola and Tim. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk Old and new ... The varied faces of 30s nightlife are depicted in this poster, Summer Nights, by Vladimir Polunin, 1930. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk The artist is unknown, but the sentiment certainly isn't - a Star trek-inspired 80s theme for To Boldly Go Where no Night Bus has Gone Before, 1984. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk A starry crowd scene lights up Out and About in Winter London, by Molly Moss, 1950. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk A grittier aesthetic appears by 1958 in To Town Tonight, by Philip Thompson. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk Brighter London for Theatreland, by Harold Sandys Williamson, 1924, summons all the excitement of an electrically enhanced Leicester Square. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk Theatre – Go by Underground, by Barnett Freedman, 1936. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk Paul Nash's poster, Come in to Play, pitched the beguiling mood of the West End against London's residential fringes in 1936. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk Verney L Danvers' 1926 design uses the underground roundel to link tube travel to theatregoing in one striking picture. Photograph: London Transport Museum Photograph: guardian.co.uk