The old reliable McFaddens flats everything new. – Vintage Poster
(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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A window into the past: The old reliable McFaddens flats everything new., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The old reliable McFaddens flats everything new.
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The poster's headline, "The old reliable McFaddens flats everything new," promotes a touring production of *McFadden's Flats*, a comic stage show that was popular on the American road in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Its color lithography is typical of the period, when theatrical advertising relied on large, multicolor sheets printed in quantity and pasted up in towns ahead of a company's arrival. The printer, the Russell-Morgan Print Company of Cincinnati and New York, was one of the firms that produced many of these posters, and the caption "I want to be an angel," with its catalog number, identifies the design as one of its stock pieces.
| Created / published | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 46 x 35 cm. |
| Notes | Created and copyright 1902 by The U.S. Lithograph Co. Russell-Morgan Print Cincinnati & New York. Caption: I want to be an angel. No. 6491. · Russell-Morgan Print. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Performing Arts Posters |
| Original scan | 2,155 × 2,780 px · prints to 7 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-272951 |
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