Morris Brothers' opera house, Boston / A. Trochsler & Co. lith., Boston. – Antique 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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A window into the past: Morris Brothers' opera house, Boston / A. Trochsler & Co. lith., Boston., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Morris Brothers' opera house, Boston / A. Trochsler & Co. lith., Boston.
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The lithograph advertises the Morris Brothers' Opera House in Boston, a venue named for the Morris Brothers, who were known as minstrel performers in the 1860s. Printed around 1867 by A. Trochsler & Co., a Boston lithographic firm, it is one of the many theater posters of that decade, when lithography was the standard way to make bold, eye-catching announcements for shows. Such posters were pasted on walls and billboards around town, so they served both as advertising and as a record of the entertainments that drew urban audiences in the years after the Civil War.
| Created / published | c1867. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Copyright by A. Trochsler & Co. |
| Subjects | Opera houses--Massachusetts--Boston--1860-1870. Posters--Massachusetts--Boston--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,256 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-190813 |
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