New York Sunday Journal--The great diamond robbery ... / Brill. – Historic Print
(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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New York Sunday Journal--The great diamond robbery ... / Brill. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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New York Sunday Journal--The great diamond robbery ... / Brill.
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A color poster promoting the New York Sunday Journal, headlined with the story of a great diamond robbery, shows how newspapers of the 1890s competed for readers. The record credits the design to Brill and gives the printer as H.I. Ireland of Philadelphia, with a date of 1896. Sunday editions of the period leaned on serialized crime tales, and eye-catching posters like this one were pasted on streets and in shop windows to pull buyers toward the newsstand. Its bold color work is worth noticing, since advertising posters of the decade were among the more elaborate uses of color printing available to American publishers.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : H.I. Ireland, 1896. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900. |
| Subjects | Newspapers--1890-1900. Reading--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,156 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216658 |
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