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Philadelphia Sunday press--Special features for Sunday, Feb. 23, 1896--Splendid picture of the battleship Philadelphia" free / Brill." – Antique Wall Art

Philadelphia Sunday press--Special features for Sunday, Feb. 23, 1896--Splendid picture of the battleship Philadelphia" free / Brill.", Philadelphia : H.I. Ireland, 1896. — vintage poster
Philadelphia Sunday press--Special features for Sunday, Feb. 23, 1896--Splendid picture of the battleship Philadelphia" free / Brill.", Philadelphia : H.I. Ireland, 1896.. Vintage poster from the Philadelphia collection.

(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: Philadelphia Sunday press--Special features for Sunday, Feb. 23, 1896--Splendid picture of the battleship Philadelphia" free / Brill.", preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A color poster promoting a free picture of the warship *Philadelphia*, offered with the *Philadelphia Sunday Press* for February 23, 1896, makes it a rare view of a newspaper's giveaway from the period. The ship was a steel cruiser built at the Cramp shipyard in Philadelphia and launched in 1889, so the city's civic pride gave the image its appeal. Newspapers in the 1890s often used such premiums to win readers in a crowded market, and the poster shows how a local paper pitched its Sunday edition to the public. Its bright printing also reflects the growing use of color lithography in commercial advertising of the era.

Created / publishedPhiladelphia : H.I. Ireland, 1896.
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreAdvertisements 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. D41. 1896.
SubjectsNewspapers--1890-1900. Reading--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,166 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216654

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