I am coming - Col. W.F. Cody – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare vintage poster captures I am coming - Col. W.F. Cody in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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I am coming - Col. W.F. Cody
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I Am Coming" promises the arrival of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," whose name the poster pairs with a bison, an animal that by 1900 had been hunted to a small fraction of its former numbers. Cody, a former army scout and buffalo hunter, had built his Wild West show into a traveling spectacle that toured American cities and Europe, mixing riding, shooting and staged frontier scenes. The Courier Litho. Company of Buffalo, New York, produced bold multicolor posters like this one for touring shows, and the bison here recalls both the plains Cody had known and the herds that were vanishing as the show performed.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1900.Circus posters 1900.Chromolithographs 1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by the Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo. No. 2862. |
| Subjects | Buffalo Bill,--1846-1917. Bison--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,233 × 841 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217030 |
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