The Orpheum Show – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of The Orpheum Show. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Orpheum Show
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Bertie Fowler's name in the caption of this 1900 lithograph points to the act at the center of the advertisement for *The Orpheum Show*, a vaudeville bill from the Orpheum circuit, which was then expanding across the western United States. Martin Beck, credited as direction, was the booker who helped build that circuit into one of the largest variety networks in the country. The poster was printed in black and white by Russell-Morgan of Cincinnati and New York for the U.S. Printing Company, and its large format shows how theater advertising of the era relied on bold lithography to draw crowds to a single week's bill.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph b&w ; 105 x 71 cm. |
| Notes | D13511 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1900 The U.S. Printing Co. Russell-Morgan Print Cincinnati & New York. Direction Martin Beck. Caption: Bertie Fowler. No. 4574. · Beck Martin 1868?-1940. Russell-Morgan Print. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,082 × 3,072 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-273349 |
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