Lyman H. Howe's high class moving pictures - new magic pictures / Courier Co. litho., Buffalo, N.Y. – Antique 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 Lyman H. Howe's high class moving pictures - new magic pictures / Courier Co. litho., Buffalo, N.Y.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Lyman H. Howe's high class moving pictures - new magic pictures / Courier Co. litho., Buffalo, N.Y.
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Lyman H. Howe was a traveling showman who toured America with film programs in the late 1890s, and this chromolithograph advertises his "new magic pictures," a phrase that signals the novelty audiences found in early motion pictures. Printed by the Courier Company in Buffalo, New York, the poster dates to 1898 and carries the copyright notice for that year. Howe's shows were staged in theaters, opera houses and temporary venues, and posters like this one were used to draw crowds to a form of entertainment that was still new and often presented as a wonder. The piece has also been shown in a museum exhibition on the relationship between American art and early film.
| Created / published | Buffalo, N.Y. : Courier Co., 1898, c1900 Aug. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | and other venues |
| Notes | Title from item. Copyright stamp on verso obscured by linen backing. DLC Copyright 1898 by Lyman H. Howe. Exhibited: Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art |
| Subjects | Howe, Lyman H.,--1856-1923. Motion picture theaters--1890-1900. Motion pictures--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,125 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117293 |
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