Gay New York a real comedy with music : the biggest success of the year. – Historic 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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Gay New York a real comedy with music : the biggest success of the year. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Printed in 1907, this poster advertises *Gay New York*, billed as a "real comedy with music" and "the biggest success of the year," and its caption, "The hand out brigade," hints at the comic tone the show promised. The Cincinnati and New York firm Russell-Morgan Print produced it as a color lithograph, the standard method for theatrical posters of the period, when color stone and later zinc plates let printers make bright, eye-catching bills for touring and Broadway productions. Posters like this were pasted on city walls and billboards to pull in passersby, so the lively color and bold lettering were meant to be read at a distance.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 45 x 36 cm. |
| Notes | Created and copyright 1907 by The U.S. Lithograph Co. Russell-Morgan Print Cincinnati & New York. Caption: The hand out brigade. No. 10274. · Russell-Morgan Print. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Performing Arts Posters |
| Original scan | 2,005 × 2,543 px · prints to 7 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-272879 |
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