Annapolis / Bristow Adams ; Andrew B. Graham, photo-litho, Washington, D.C. – Historic Photograph Print
(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 Annapolis / Bristow Adams ; Andrew B. Graham, photo-litho, Washington, D.C.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Annapolis / Bristow Adams ; Andrew B. Graham, photo-litho, Washington, D.C.
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This poster pairs the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis with a single named figure, Bristow Adams, and the record lists football players among its subjects. Andrew B. Graham, a Washington, D.C., printer, produced it around 1902 as a photo-lithograph, a process that let printers reproduce photographic likenesses in color for public display. Posters like this show how sports teams, including service academies, were promoted to the public in the first decade of the 1900s, when a player's portrait could carry a team's name into city streets.
| Created / published | Washington, D.C. : Andrew B. Graham, photo-litho., c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Posters American 1900-1910.Prints Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. K3. 1902. Copyright by the Potomac Press, Washington, D.C. |
| Subjects | United States Naval Academy--Sports--1900-1910. Football players--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,130 × 1,422 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217115 |
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