Harper's August – Vintage Print
![Harper's August, [1899] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/dc/dcd75cc62e2c-L.webp)
(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: Harper's August, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Harper's August
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Rather than a scene of the road itself, this 1899 color poster pairs a woman with a carriage, the combination its subject headings name alongside transportation. It advertised the August issue of a Harper's publication from the New York firm Harper & Brothers, whose magazines reached a broad middle-class readership at the close of the nineteenth century. Color posters were still a fairly new tool in American publishing, and their bright printing was meant to catch the eye on city streets and in shop windows. The horse-drawn carriage here reflects the leisure and fashion of the period, when a summer drive was a familiar image of genteel life.
| Created / published | [1899] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1899. |
| Subjects | Women--1890-1900. Carriages & coaches--1890-1900. Transportation--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,452 × 1,139 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217055 |
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