Cornell – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Cornell comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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This 1908 chromolithograph is one of the few baseball prints in the collection tied directly to a university, with Cornell's athletes as its subject. Chas W. Beck, Jr. registered the copyright that year, and the artist signed the piece with a pictograph, a small emblem rather than a written name. Chromolithography, which built color from a series of stone or plate impressions, was a popular method for bold advertising and sports imagery in the early 1900s, when college baseball drew sizable crowds. Looking closely, you can see how the flat, saturated color fields were layered to give the figures their punch.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Sports posters American 1900-1910.Chromolithographs Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Title from item. Promotional goal: U.S. K3. 1908. Copyright 1908, by Chas W. Beck, Jr. Signed with artist's pictograph. |
| Subjects | Cornell University--Sports--1900-1910. Baseball players--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 899 × 1,293 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217120 |
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