Way down East a story about plain people. – Vintage 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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This rare vintage poster captures Way down East a story about plain people. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Way down East a story about plain people.
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Way Down East" was a stage melodrama, and this 1897 lithograph bills it as "a story about plain people," promising the rural sentiment audiences expected. Lottie Blair Parker wrote the play, which toured American theaters for decades and became one of the most durable melodramas of its era. Its best-known sequence, a rescue on an ice floe in a snowy river, drew audiences who came for romance and peril alike. The Strobridge Lithograph Company, based in Cincinnati and New York, produced many posters like this one to advertise touring shows, and it shows how commercial color printing was used to sell theater in the 1890s.
| Created / published | Cin'ti ; New York : Strobridge Lith. Co., c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 77 x 102 cm. |
| Notes | C248703 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Litho. Co. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,694 × 3,713 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219571 |
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