The Air Ship: musical farce comedy poster by J.M. Gaites – Antique Poster Print
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of The Air Ship: musical farce comedy poster by J.M. Gaites. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The Air Ship: musical farce comedy poster by J.M. Gaites
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The airship is the joke at the center of this piece. *The Air Ship* was a musical farce, and its title promised a vessel that could sail through the sky, which the poster plays up with an eye-catching design. Theatrical posters like this were printed in quantity and pasted on walls and fences ahead of a touring production. Audiences of the late 1800s were fascinated by balloons and by the unsolved problem of steering through the air, so a comic stage show about an airship tapped into a real public enthusiasm. The bold color and crowded lettering typical of the period show how quickly the dream of flight became popular entertainment.
| Original scan | 2,062 × 3,072 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 0884u |
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