Rices Evangeline extravaganza company – 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 vintage poster of Rices Evangeline extravaganza company brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Rices Evangeline extravaganza company
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This poster advertises Rice's *Evangeline*, a musical burlesque built on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 poem about the Acadian exile. Edward E. Rice, who produced the show, turned the serious story into a comic stage spectacle that toured widely in the 1870s. The black-and-white lithograph was printed by the Metropolitan Lithographic Studio in New York and signed by the artist R. Muller, with J. E. Jackson listed as the agent who handled the booking. Posters like this one were a main form of advertising for traveling companies of the period.
| Created / published | 1879 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph b&w ; 70 x 54 cm. |
| Notes | K10147 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio 29 Warren St. N.Y. 1879. Signed: R. Muller. J.E. Jackson agent. · Rice Edward E. (Edward Everett) 1848-1924. Muller R. Jackson J. E. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Performing Arts Posters |
| Original scan | 2,148 × 2,722 px · prints to 7 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-272975 |
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