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Scribner's [for] April – Vintage Wall Art

Scribner's [for] April, 1895 — vintage poster
Scribner's [for] April, 1895. Vintage poster from the Books & Writers collection.

(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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A window into the past: Scribner's [for] April, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Scribner's [for] April

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Charles Dana Gibson designed this color poster to promote the April 1895 issue of *Scribner's Magazine*, the New York monthly published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Gibson was then establishing himself as a magazine illustrator, and the crisp lines and elegant women he drew in the 1890s would soon be known as the Gibson Girl. The poster carries the same polished style readers expected inside the magazine's pages, which makes it a useful window onto how publishers sold both fiction and fashion in that period.

Created / published1895
Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 45 x 29 cm.
NotesPoster by Charles Dana Gibson, 1867-1944. Gift of Mrs. Grant Foreman. Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1895. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Scribner's magazine. Clothing.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan983 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172784

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