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Faust. – Vintage Poster

Faust., Chicago : Shober & Carqueville, c1888. — vintage poster
Faust., Chicago : Shober & Carqueville, c1888.. Vintage poster from the Theater Posters collection.

(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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Faust. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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This color lithograph poster advertises *Faust*, the story of a scholar who bargains his soul to the devil, a tale audiences had seen on European and American stages for generations by 1888. The Chicago firm Shober & Carqueville produced it around that year, when American lithographers printed bold, large-format theater bills to draw crowds. The poster was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, a step many commercial print makers took to protect their designs.

Created / publishedChicago : Shober & Carqueville, c1888.
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 54 x 72 cm.
NotesU2745 U.S. Copyright Office Created by Shober & Carqueville
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,643 × 3,727 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221752

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