Harper's Weekly. National authority on amateur sport / Maxfield Parrish – Antique Wall Art
![Harper's Weekly. National authority on amateur sport / Maxfield Parrish, [189-] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3b/3b54d97f894b-L.webp)
(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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Harper's Weekly. National authority on amateur sport / Maxfield Parrish comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Harper's Weekly. National authority on amateur sport / Maxfield Parrish
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Harper's Weekly placed its own claim front and center in this color poster, calling the magazine the "National authority on amateur sport." The design is by Maxfield Parrish, who was just beginning his career as an illustrator in the 1890s and would later become known for his luminous, idealized painting. The date on the record is only partly legible, so the poster is best placed in that decade, when organized amateur athletics such as college football, rowing, and bicycling were drawing growing public interest. Commercial posters like this one show how periodicals competed for readers by linking themselves to those pastimes.
| Created / published | [189-] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Notes | Color poster by Maxfield Parrish. Promotional goal: U.S. D42. 189-? This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,160 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173842 |
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