Heart of the Klondike theatre poster, Yukon River scene – Antique Poster Print
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A window into the past: Heart of the Klondike theatre poster, Yukon River scene, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Heart of the Klondike theatre poster, Yukon River scene
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Rather than a landscape or a photograph of a town, this piece is a theater poster, and its Yukon River scene ties it to the Klondike gold rush. The rush began in 1896 when prospectors struck gold in the Klondike region of the Yukon, and within a couple of years tens of thousands of people had passed through Dawson City and the river routes that led to it, many of them through Alaska's ports at Skagway and Dyea. Stage productions borrowed that frenzy, and touring companies used bold, colorful posters like this one to draw audiences to dramas set in the northern goldfields. The poster is worth a close look for how it packages the river and the frontier as spectacle for city theatergoers far to the south.
| Original scan | 2,636 × 2,005 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 0851u |
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