Chas. H. Yales forever Devils auction – Vintage Poster
(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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This rare vintage poster captures Chas. H. Yales forever Devils auction in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The joke at the center of this poster is in its caption: two "Chin-chin girls" turn out, to one onlooker's surprise, to be a man. Charles H. Yale, whose name heads the sheet, gave the show its title, and the black-and-white lithograph was printed in 1899 by the U.S. Printing Co. of Cincinnati and New York. Posters of the period often leaned on Orientalist stock figures such as geishas and "Chinese" women, which American stage comedy used for exotic display and courtship humor. The disguised-performer gag belongs to the cross-dressing comedy common in the variety and musical theater of the day.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph b&w ; 72 x 107 cm. |
| Notes | 53217 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co. Cin. & N.Y. Russell-Morgan Print. Caption: Chin-chin girls Why its a man! Toby Of course it is - I could have told you that in the first place. No. 4027. · Yale Chas. H. (Charles H.) d. 1920. Russell-Morgan Print. |
| Subjects | Geishas. Chinese--Performances & portrayals. Chinese--Women. Courtship. Theatrical productions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Performing Arts Posters |
| Original scan | 3,072 × 2,078 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-272572 |
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