The Chicago Morning News--All the news for two cents / Shober & Carqueville lith., Chicago. – Historic Reproduction
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(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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Step back in time with The Chicago Morning News--All the news for two cents / Shober & Carqueville lith., Chicago., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Chicago Morning News--All the news for two cents / Shober & Carqueville lith., Chicago.
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The Chicago Morning News poster sells the paper on its price alone: all the news for two cents, a claim aimed at street buyers in a crowded city. Printed by the Chicago lithography firm Shober & Carqueville, it belongs to the 1880s, when cheap daily papers were multiplying and competing for readers among a growing urban population. Its subjects also name the newsboys and carriers who hawked papers on Chicago's streets, so the poster doubles as a record of how news reached ordinary readers in that decade.
| Created / published | [1881?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) |
| Genre | Advertisements 1880-1890.Posters 1880-1890.Prints Color 1880-1890. |
| Subjects | Newspapers--1880-1890. Newspaper carriers--Illinois--Chicago--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,246 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172651 |
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