[Advertisement for Star toboggans, showing people sledding at night] / Phoenix Litho. Co., Chicago. – Historic Print
![[Advertisement for Star toboggans, showing people sledding at night] / Phoenix Litho. Co., Chicago., c1887. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/93/935b1abc3603-L.webp)
(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: [Advertisement for Star toboggans, showing people sledding at night] / Phoenix Litho. Co., Chicago., preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Advertisement for Star toboggans, showing people sledding at night] / Phoenix Litho. Co., Chicago.
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Here a lithographed advertisement from about 1887 turns the sled into a night-time scene: the Star toboggan is shown carrying riders down a snowy slope after dark, a combination the record's subject headings single out as winter and night recreation. Phoenix Lithograph Company of Chicago produced the color print to sell the toboggans, so its real purpose was persuasion, though it also documents how winter leisure was pictured in the 1880s. Toboggan sliding had become a popular pastime in the United States by then, and advertisers used lively, crowded scenes like this one to suggest fun and fashion. Its registration with the U.S. Copyright Office, noted on the record, shows that the design was protected as a published work.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1880-1890.Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 29040 U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Toboggans--United States--1880-1890. Winter--1880-1890. Night--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,151 × 1,455 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217071 |
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