Greater Shenandoah theatre poster: How Did That Portrait Come In Your Possession? – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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: Greater Shenandoah theatre poster: How Did That Portrait Come In Your Possession?, preserved in this vintage poster. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Greater Shenandoah theatre poster: How Did That Portrait Come In Your Possession?
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The poster's headline, "How Did That Portrait Come In Your Possession?", reads like a line from a stage melodrama, and the Shenandoah name points to the Shenandoah Valley, a region that was a battleground through much of the Civil War. Many touring dramas of the late 1800s used the Civil War as a backdrop, mixing divided loyalties, lost keepsakes and sudden revelations to hold audiences. Bronson Howard's play *Shenandoah*, a well-known wartime drama of the 1880s, is one example of the genre that drew large crowds on the road. Posters like this one were meant to be read from a distance, so their bold type and dramatic questions did much of the selling.
| Original scan | 2,082 × 3,072 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1023u |
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