The Boston Sunday Herald Want Ads poster, April 1896 – Historic Poster Reproduction
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This vintage poster of The Boston Sunday Herald Want Ads poster, April 1896 brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Boston Sunday Herald Want Ads poster, April 1896
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Dated April 1896, this poster promotes the want-ad section of the Boston Sunday Herald, a reminder of how central classified notices were to Sunday papers of the period. Readers used those columns to find work, hire household help, and rent or sell property, so a strong want-ad section was a real selling point for a newspaper. The poster shows how the paper tried to draw readers to that marketplace. Its date falls in a decade when Boston and other American cities were growing quickly and their newspaper audiences were expanding with them.
| Original scan | 813 × 1,210 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 36 |
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