Hoyts comic whirlwind A brass monkey a satire on superstition. – Antique Poster Print
(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: Hoyts comic whirlwind A brass monkey a satire on superstition., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hoyts comic whirlwind A brass monkey a satire on superstition.
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Hoyts theater in New York is the venue named on this 1900 poster for *A Brass Monkey*, a satire on superstition. Its author, Charles Hale Hoyt, was a playwright known for broad, fast-moving farces, and he died in 1900, the year this sheet was issued. The lithograph was printed by Russell-Morgan of Cincinnati and New York, and its caption, "I want my hat!", hints at the frantic comic business the show relied on. The black-and-white design shows how theater advertising was made at the time.
| Created / published | 1900 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph b&w ; 70 x 103 cm. |
| Notes | D11166 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1900 by The U.S. Printing Co. Russell-Morgan Print Cincinnati & New York. From Hoyts Theatre New York. Caption: I want my hat! No. 4449. · Hoyt Charles Hale 1859-1900. Russell-Morgan Print. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Performing Arts Posters |
| Original scan | 2,855 × 1,960 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-272907 |
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