Arizona cowboy. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare vintage poster captures Arizona cowboy. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The poster's record names Herbert K. Betts, a performer who died in 1931, and its subjects point to a melodrama plot: a cowboy in Arizona, a strangling, a loss of consciousness, and a rescue, with Native American characters in the scene. Lithographs like this came from the Russell-Morgan Print Company of Cincinnati, a firm known for bold color posters that advertised traveling Western shows to small-town audiences in the early twentieth century. Posters of this kind were built to catch the eye from a distance, so the dramatic action is staged in a single, crowded moment. Its date of about 1910 places it near the height of the touring Western stage and the dime-novel tradition it drew on.
| Created / published | Cincinnati ; New York : U.S. Lithograph Co., c1910. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 105 x 72 cm. |
| Genre | Russell-Morgan Print |
| Notes | Created and copyright |
| Subjects | Betts, Herbert K.,--d. 1931--Performances. Cowboys. Strangling. Loss of consciousness. Indians of North America--Performances & portrayals. Rescues. Westerns.United States--Arizona. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,581 × 3,889 px · prints to 9 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222301 |
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