The Air Ship: a musical farce comedy poster – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with The Air Ship: a musical farce comedy poster, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The Air Ship: a musical farce comedy poster
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*The Air Ship* was a musical farce comedy, and this poster announces it with the kind of bold display lettering and eye-catching scene that theater managers used to pull passersby off the street. Aerial travel was then a source of real public fascination, fed by balloon ascents at fairs and by growing talk of steerable craft, so a comic stage take on flight offered an easy joke with broad appeal. Posters for productions like this one were built to sell an evening out, blending novelty and slapstick into a single promise of entertainment.
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,314 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 0884u |
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