Ariel / Hatch & Co. Herald Building, N.Y. – Antique Photo 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: Ariel / Hatch & Co. Herald Building, N.Y., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ariel / Hatch & Co. Herald Building, N.Y.
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The label is named for Ariel, the airy spirit in Shakespeare's *The Tempest*, a choice that suggested lightness and refinement to buyers. Its record lists women and bats among its subjects, a pairing of figures that was common in the fanciful imagery of the period. Color lithography made tobacco package labels like this one inexpensive to reproduce in quantity, and the bright, decorative designs were meant to catch the eye on a shop counter. The copyright credit to Lichtenstein Bros. & Co. marks it as a commercial design that was protected from copying.
| Created / published | c1869. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Copyright by Lichtenstein Bros. & Co. |
| Subjects | Women--1860-1870. Bats--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,159 × 1,474 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218237 |
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