Reveries – Vintage Wall Art
(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
Step back in time with Reveries, a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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*Reveries* is a hand-colored poster from about 1910 that links cigar smoking with the drifting, half-awake pleasure of daydreaming, a theme well suited to tobacco advertising of the period. Printed posters like this were a major advertising medium in the early 1900s, when companies competed for attention on streetcars, in shop windows and on billboards. The record notes that it was copyrighted by the S & S System of Chicago, which shows the maker sought legal protection for the design. Its subjects, smoking, cigars and dreaming, make the poster a useful example of how advertisers sold leisure to men.
| Created / published | c1910. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : hand-colored. |
| Genre | Posters American 1910.Advertisements 1910.Prints Hand-colored 1910. |
| Notes | K11662 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by the S & S System, Chicago. |
| Subjects | Smoking--1910. Cigars--1910. Dreaming--1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,168 × 1,488 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217857 |
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