Siberia written by Bartley Campbell. – Antique Poster 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 Siberia written by Bartley Campbell. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Siberia written by Bartley Campbell.
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The line "I'll pay for it!" printed on this sheet points to a moment from Bartley Campbell's melodrama *Siberia*, a play built on exile, poverty and theft in the Russian penal regions. Campbell wrote a string of stage melodramas that toured American theaters in the 1880s, and this 1900 lithograph was made by the Russell-Morgan Print Company of Cincinnati and New York to advertise a production under the direction of W.J. Fielding. The subject tags for robbery, charity and the poor show how the play leaned on sympathetic outcasts and stolen goods, a formula that touring audiences of the period expected from melodrama.
| Created / published | 1900 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph b&w ; 71 x 53 cm. |
| Notes | D11997 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1900 by The U.S. Printing Co Russell-Morgan Print Cincinnati & New York. Direction W.J. Fielding. Caption: Ill pay for it! No. 4417. · Campbell Bartley Theodore 1843-1884. Fielding W. J. Russell-Morgan Print. |
| Subjects | Robberies--Russia (Federation)--Siberia. Charity--Russia (Federation)--Siberia. Poor persons--Russia (Federation)--Siberia. Theatrical productions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Performing Arts Posters |
| Original scan | 1,949 × 2,627 px · prints to 6 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-273755 |
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