The Real Widow Brown poster: The Lonelyville Accommodation – Vintage Poster
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The Real Widow Brown poster: The Lonelyville Accommodation comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The Real Widow Brown poster: The Lonelyville Accommodation
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The title pairs a stage-style name, "The Real Widow Brown," with a comic subtitle, "The Lonelyville Accommodation," which suggests a farce or light comedy rather than a sporting subject. Its place on a bicycle board points to the 1890s, when the bicycle craze reached the stage, the press, and advertising. Playbills and posters from that period often used a bicycle to signal a fashionable, up-to-date story, and an audience would have read the wheel as a joke about modern manners. The record offers little beyond the title, so the lettering and the bicycle itself are the best places to look for what the poster was trying to sell.
| Original scan | 2,107 × 2,964 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1172u |
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