Newmann's Wonderful Spirit Mysteries – 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.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures Newmann's Wonderful Spirit Mysteries in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Newmann's Wonderful Spirit Mysteries
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Newmann's Wonderful Spirit Mysteries puts a performer's name and the promise of the supernatural at the center of its bold lettering, the kind of pitch built to catch a passerby's eye in 1911. Spirit entertainments of that era drew on the wide public fascination with spiritualism, séances, and claimed contact with the dead, and they played in theaters and traveling halls alike. Posters were the main advertising for such shows, so their dramatic imagery was meant to draw a crowd from the street. Today the piece fits naturally among Halloween material, since the holiday has long been tied to ghosts and the uncanny.
| Created / published | c. 1911 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, poster, lithograph, color, 77 x 56 cm. |
| Notes | C. A. George Newman, magician. Donaldson Litho. Co., Newport, Kentucky |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,483 × 3,600 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1646u 1911 |
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