Lost in Siberia – Antique Poster 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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A window into the past: Lost in Siberia, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Lost in Siberia
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The caption on this 1898 lithograph calls the hiding place "a safe depository for nihilist letters," which sets it apart from the many melodrama posters that rely on snowy landscapes alone. The play, *Lost in Siberia*, drew on public fascination with the tsarist penal system, in which political dissidents were exiled to remote Siberian settlements. "Nihilist" was the term Western audiences used for Russian revolutionaries who opposed the autocracy, and secret correspondence smuggled past guards and censors was a common stage device. The poster was printed by the Strobridge Lithographing Company of Cincinnati and New York, one of the busiest American firms producing color posters at the time.
| Created / published | 1898 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 73 x 48 cm. |
| Notes | Created and copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co. Cincinnati & New York. Caption: A safe depository for nihilist letters. N.Y. no. 8225. · Reno C. R. Russell-Morgan Print. |
| Subjects | Hiding. Correspondence. Military personnel--Russian. Theatrical productions.Russia (Federation)--Siberia. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,022 × 3,072 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-273075 |
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