Glen White in Gem's great instructive play, Absinthe--Reflective moments / Metropolitan Division, U.S. Lithograph Company. – Historic Reproduction
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(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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This vintage poster of Glen White in Gem's great instructive play, Absinthe--Reflective moments / Metropolitan Division, U.S. Lithograph Company. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Glen White in Gem's great instructive play, Absinthe--Reflective moments / Metropolitan Division, U.S. Lithograph Company.
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Glen White stars in this color lithograph for Gem's *Absinthe*, a dramatic film whose title names the notorious green liqueur at its center. The poster, dated around 1913, was printed by the U.S. Lithograph Company, and the Universal trademark in the lower left corner marks its studio. In the 1910s, absinthe was widely blamed for drunkenness and ruin, and the drink was banned in several countries, so a film built around it drew on real public anxiety about alcohol. The poster's subject tags on alcoholism show how such films framed drinking as a moral cautionary tale.
| Created / published | [1913] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Motion picture posters 1910-1920.Prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Universal films trademark in lower left corner. |
| Subjects | White, Glen--Performances. Alcoholism--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,047 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176713 |
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