Newmann the Great – Vintage Wall Art
![Newmann the Great, [Milwaukee] : Riverside Printing Company, [ca. 1898] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6a/6a6384c5efb3-L.webp)
(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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This vintage poster of Newmann the Great brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Newmann the Great
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Here the magician drives a horse-drawn coach with a blindfold over his eyes, the feat named in the caption "Making his famous blindfold drive." The sheet was printed by the Riverside Printing Company of Milwaukee around 1898, when touring stage magicians relied on large color lithographs to draw crowds to theaters and opera houses. Newmann, billed as "the Great," built his reputation on spectacles like this one, where bold imagery did as much work as the illusion itself. Posters like this preserve how traveling entertainers marketed themselves before film and radio.
| Created / published | [Milwaukee] : Riverside Printing Company, [ca. 1898] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 51 x 69 cm. |
| Genre | Theatrical posters American.Lithographs Color. |
| Notes | Created by Riverside Printing Company." Caption: Making his famous blindfold drive. Forms part of the McManus-Young Collection. No. 1395. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956." |
| Subjects | Newmann, C. A. George--Performances. Magicians. Coach drivers. Carriages & coaches. Horses. Blindfolds. Magic. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,143 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226536 |
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