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[Woman wearing brief costume blue tights pink cape with feathers in her hair] – Antique Wall Art

[Woman wearing brief costume blue tights pink cape with feathers in her hair], 1899 — vintage poster
[Woman wearing brief costume blue tights pink cape with feathers in her hair], 1899. Vintage poster from the New Orleans 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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[Woman wearing brief costume blue tights pink cape with feathers in her hair] comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A woman in a brief costume, blue tights, and a pink cape with feathers in her hair fills this 1899 color lithograph. The poster was printed by the Courier Litho. Co. of Buffalo, New York, a firm that produced many theatrical and entertainment bills in the late 1800s. Chromolithography like this was the main way traveling shows advertised before photographic reproduction became common, and the bold flat colors and large figure were meant to catch the eye from a street wall. The record gives the title as devised by cataloguers, so the performer's name and act are not recorded here.

Created / published1899
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 107 x 72 cm.
NotesCreated and copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co. Buffalo N.Y. Title devised. No. 591. · Muller R. Jackson J. E.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Performing Arts Posters
Original scan2,042 × 2,973 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-THR-272404

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