Lost in Siberia – Vintage Poster
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Lost in Siberia. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lost in Siberia
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Its caption, "When do I eat? Your high nobility!", sets the tone: a poster for a melodrama of Russian peasant life, where a humble figure bows before aristocrats and ropes appear among the stage business. The Strobridge Lithographing Company of Cincinnati and New York printed many theatrical posters like this in the late 1890s, when touring melodramas about exile and hardship were popular across American stages. Siberia, a place of penal exile in the Russian imagination, offered audiences a distant and dramatic setting. The print shows how such posters combined bold color with a sketch of the plot to draw crowds.
| Created / published | 1898 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 73 x 48 cm. |
| Notes | Created and copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co. Cincinnati & New York. Caption: When do I eat? Your high nobility! N.Y. no. 8224. · Jackson J. E. |
| Subjects | Bowing. Ropes. Peasants--Russia (Federation)--Siberia. Theatrical productions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,055 × 3,072 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-272321 |
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