May Howard extravaganza – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures May Howard extravaganza in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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May Howard extravaganza
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Billed as a May Howard extravaganza, this color lithograph advertised a burlesque production from the late 1890s, when the form drew large crowds with lavish costumes, comic sketches and chorus lines. The H.C. Miner Litho. Co. printed it in New York, one of the firms that produced bright theatrical posters for city and touring stages of the period. Its subject headings point to features typical of the genre: women performing in chorus roles, cross-dressing acts, and comic portrayals of African Americans that today read as racial caricature. Those elements make the sheet useful for studying how burlesque sold itself and whom it put on stage.
| Created / published | N.Y. : H.C. Miner Litho. Co., c1898. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 71 x 101 cm. |
| Notes | Created and copyright 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co. |
| Subjects | Burlesque shows. Chorus girls. Cross dressing. African Americans--Performances & portrayals. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,647 × 3,737 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221677 |
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