Tour of Mr. Charles B. Hanford – Vintage Poster 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.)
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A window into the past: Tour of Mr. Charles B. Hanford, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Tour of Mr. Charles B. Hanford
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The poster's most distinctive feature is its facsimile signature, "Very truly yours Charles B. Harford," which presents the actor's name as if written by hand, though the title spells it Hanford. Charles B. Hanford was an American actor known for Shakespearean and other classical roles, and he toured widely with his own company in the early 1900s. Posters like this were printed in quantity so theater managers could paste them up along a tour route, and the Russell-Morgan Print firm of Cincinnati and New York was one of the major American shops making color lithographs for the stage at the time.
| Created / published | 1902 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 46 x 36 cm. |
| Notes | G xxc 3465 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1902 by The U.S. Lithograph Co. Russell-Morgan Print Cincinnati & New York. Caption: Very truly yours Charles B. Harford. No. 6302. · Russell-Morgan Print. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Performing Arts Posters |
| Original scan | 2,140 × 2,739 px · prints to 7 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-271819 |
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