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S.H. Barret & Cos.: New United Monster Railroad Shows. The coming mode of travel Prof. Harriman's Steam Air-Ship"" – Vintage Print

S.H. Barret & Cos.: New United Monster Railroad Shows. The coming mode of travel Prof. Harriman's Steam Air-Ship"", [189-?] — vintage poster
S.H. Barret & Cos.: New United Monster Railroad Shows. The coming mode of travel Prof. Harriman's Steam Air-Ship"", [189-?]. Vintage poster from the Aviation collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare vintage poster captures S.H. Barret & Cos.: New United Monster Railroad Shows. The coming mode of travel Prof. Harriman's Steam Air-Ship"" in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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The poster promotes S.H. Barret & Cos.' New United Monster Railroad Shows with a headline attraction, Prof. Harriman's steam air-ship, billed as "the coming mode of travel." Strobridge, the Cincinnati firm that printed this color lithograph, produced many bold sheets like it for traveling shows. Pairing a circus with an airship reflects how promoters borrowed the public's fascination with flight in the 1890s, when powered flight was still unsolved and such claims mixed showmanship with optimistic forecasts. The record gives only a decade-level date, so the poster's exact year is uncertain.

Created / published[189-?]
Medium1 print (poster).
SubjectsColor lithograph by Strobridge Co. No ref. copy. Landauer Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Posters; BI(2); Circus...--Misc.; Artists, Publ. Index.; Airships; Transportation; Shelf.
Original scan1,536 × 1,127 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176096

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