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Fun on the Bristol--A night on the sound with a complete dramatic and musical company ... – Antique Poster Print

Fun on the Bristol--A night on the sound with a complete dramatic and musical company ..., [189-] — vintage poster
Fun on the Bristol--A night on the sound with a complete dramatic and musical company ..., [189-]. Vintage poster from the Theater Posters 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 Fun on the Bristol--A night on the sound with a complete dramatic and musical company .... An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Promising "a night on the sound" with a complete dramatic and musical company, this color lithograph advertises a show called *Fun on the Bristol*. The 1890s musical revue it promotes drew heavily on minstrel traditions, and productions of this kind often presented Black performers through exaggerated stereotypes. Printers of the period used bold color and caricature to draw crowds, so the poster reveals as much about how audiences were expected to see African Americans as it does about the entertainment itself. Today it is best read as a record of that prejudice as well as of the theater of its time.

Created / published[189-]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color.
GenreEthnic stereotypes 1890-1900.Posters 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900.
SubjectsMusical revues & comedies--1890-1900. African Americans--Performances & portrayals--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,138 × 1,436 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216533

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