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New York Sunday Journal--Sunday March 22--The wickedest city in the world / Brill. – Vintage Print

New York Sunday Journal--Sunday March 22--The wickedest city in the world / Brill., Philadelphia : H.I. Ireland, 1896. — vintage poster
New York Sunday Journal--Sunday March 22--The wickedest city in the world / Brill., Philadelphia : H.I. Ireland, 1896.. Vintage poster from the New York City collection.

(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 vintage poster of New York Sunday Journal--Sunday March 22--The wickedest city in the world / Brill. brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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New York Sunday Journal--Sunday March 22--The wickedest city in the world / Brill.

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A color poster for the Sunday edition of the New York Journal, dated March 22, promises readers a look at "the wickedest city in the world." Printed in Philadelphia by H.I. Ireland in 1896, it reflects the circulation battles of the mid-1890s, when Hearst's Journal and Pulitzer's World competed with bold color, sensational stories, and illustrated Sunday pages. The slogan also tapped into the public debate over vice and corruption in New York, which had intensified after Rev. Charles Parkhurst's 1892 attacks on the city's police and officials. The artist's name, Brill, appears in the title.

Created / publishedPhiladelphia : H.I. Ireland, 1896.
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreAdvertisements 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900.
SubjectsNewspapers--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,152 × 1,456 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216657

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