Roeber and Crane Bros Vaudeville-Athletic Co. – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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: Roeber and Crane Bros Vaudeville-Athletic Co., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Roeber and Crane Bros Vaudeville-Athletic Co.
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Ford and Dot West, billed as comedy sketch artists, headline this 1898 lithograph with their sketch *The Waiter and the Maid*. The black-and-white poster carries the Russell-Morgan Print mark of Cincinnati, a city with several active lithography houses at the time. Its billing for the Roeber and Crane Bros Vaudeville-Athletic Co. reflects a popular late-1890s format that paired short comic acts with athletic exhibitions on one bill. Posters like this were pasted on walls and storefronts, so their bold lettering and simple figures were meant to catch a passerby's eye quickly.
| Created / published | 1898 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph b&w ; 72 x 53 cm. |
| Notes | 52627 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1898 by The U.S. Printing Co. Cin. U.S.A. Russell-Morgan Print. Caption: The waiter and the maid Ford and Dot West comedy sketch artists. No. 3341. · Roeber and Crane Bros Vaudeville-Athletic Co. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Performing Arts Posters |
| Original scan | 2,061 × 2,827 px · prints to 7 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-272777 |
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