The Air Ship: A Musical Farce Comedy poster – Antique Poster Print
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The Air Ship: A Musical Farce Comedy poster comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The Air Ship: A Musical Farce Comedy poster
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Among the balloon subjects on this board, this poster stands out for placing an airship at the center of a stage show. It advertises *The Air Ship*, a musical farce comedy, a genre that filled American theaters in the late 1800s with comic plots, popular songs and lavish spectacle. Audiences of the period were fascinated by flight, and the promise of a voyage through the sky drew on the same excitement that packed crowds into balloon ascensions and early dirigible experiments. The poster shows how producers borrowed a novelty of the day to sell laughter and song.
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,252 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 2061u |
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