Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures poster – Vintage Poster
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This rare vintage poster captures Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures poster in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures poster
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Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures poster stands out for its promotion of the traveling showman's program rather than any single film. Howe built a business in the late 1890s and early 1900s by carrying projected motion pictures, vaudeville-style acts, and illustrated lectures from town to town, often in opera houses and tents where local audiences had rarely seen a moving image. Posters like this one were the main way such shows announced themselves, so they reveal how early exhibitors pitched film as a respectable family entertainment. It is worth noticing the bold lettering and the emphasis on "high class," a deliberate effort to set the shows apart from cheaper penny arcades.
| Original scan | 3,154 × 4,174 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 05940u |
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