Scribner's For Christmas – 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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A window into the past: Scribner's For Christmas, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Scribner's For Christmas
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A color poster from 1895, issued by the New York publisher C. Scribner's Sons, uses the holiday season to promote the firm's books and magazine. Louis John Rhead, an English-born artist who worked in America in the 1890s, designed it during the period when color posters were spreading through American shops and streets. Holiday advertising of this kind was meant to catch the eye of shoppers as they chose gifts, and it shows how publishers marketed their wares as Christmas approached.
| Created / published | c. 1895 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, poster, color, 51 x 36 cm. |
| Notes | C. Scribner's Sons, New York. . Color poster by Louis John Rhead, Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1895 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,115 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176431 |
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