Three friends – Historic Print
![Three friends, Cleveland : A.B.C. Co., [1913] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a4/a40b3db48401-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: Three friends, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Three friends
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*Three Friends* is a Biograph film, and this poster advertises it under the company's release number 8285. Biograph, based in New York, was one of the leading American studios of the early 1910s, known for its short films and for the work of director D.W. Griffith. The lithograph, printed in color in Cleveland by A.B.C. Co. in 1913, shows the period's approach to film advertising: large, bold images meant to catch the eye of passersby and draw them into the theater. Its subject headings point to men gathered around eating and drinking, a common social setting in the story-driven films of the time.
| Created / published | Cleveland : A.B.C. Co., [1913] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 104 x 70 cm. |
| Genre | Motion picture posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. A Biograph film. No. 8285. Stamped on back: Netherlands Filmmuseum Amsterdam. |
| Subjects | Men--1910-1920. Eating & drinking--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,099 × 5,127 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226616 |
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