The Bostonians America's Greatest Light Opera Co. poster – Vintage Poster
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A window into the past: The Bostonians America's Greatest Light Opera Co. poster, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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The Bostonians America's Greatest Light Opera Co. poster
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The poster bills the company as America's greatest light opera company, a boast typical of late nineteenth-century theatrical advertising, when troupes competed for audiences with bold claims. The Bostonians took their name from the city where they were formed in the late 1870s, and they built a reputation for polished performances of comic operettas while touring the country for decades. Posters like this one were pasted on walls and billboards to announce a run, and they show how the entertainment trade promoted itself before film and radio took over. The hometown identity written into the name is worth noticing, since it helped a traveling company sell itself as a Boston institution.
| Original scan | 954 × 1,860 px · prints to 3 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 38 |
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