Books - the ideal gift – Vintage Print
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(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 Books - the ideal gift 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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Its title, "Books - the ideal gift," makes the poster's argument plain: reading material is presented as a present worth giving rather than a routine purchase. It is a color lithograph, a printing method that built images from flat areas of ink in several colors, and posters of this kind were often used to encourage gift buying. The Library of Congress record credits the design to Thelma Gidlipp Grosvenor but gives no date, and that attribution comes from an older caption card, so it should be treated as unverified.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 53 x 34 cm. |
| Notes | Color lithograph by Thelma Gidlipp Grosvenor. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Title. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,008 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172543 |
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