Lippincott's [for] August – Historic Reproduction
![Lippincott's [for] August, 1896 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9f/9f1458f5ab63-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Lippincott's [for] August. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lippincott's [for] August
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A color poster from 1896 promotes the August number of *Lippincott's*, the Philadelphia monthly that J.B. Lippincott & Co. published from the late 1860s. The design is credited to J.J. Gould. Its caption tracings also point to beaches, which suggests the issue was pitched as summer reading for vacationers. Posters like this show how literary publishers in the 1890s borrowed the eye-catching methods of commercial advertising to sell magazines.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 50 x 38 cm. |
| Notes | Color poster by J.J. Gould. [Philadelphia] J.B. Lippincott Co. Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1898. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Lippincott's monthly magazine. Posters; Books; Beaches. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,157 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172771 |
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