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Harper's June – Vintage Print

Harper's June, [1899] — vintage poster
Harper's June, [1899]. Vintage poster from the Flowers & Trees 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Harper's June. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A bright color poster announcing the June number of *Harper's*, the New York monthly that was one of the most widely read general magazines of its day. Printed around 1899, it belongs to a boom in American color lithography, when publishers commissioned large, eye-catching posters for city streets and shop windows. The floral subject ties the advertisement to the season, using early-summer blooms to suggest the magazine's arrival in readers' homes. Posters like this show how commercial art of the 1890s combined decorative design with the business of selling periodicals.

Created / published[1899]
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreAdvertisements 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. D42. 1899.
SubjectsFlowers--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,460 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217054

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