Sunset, November 1903--Thanksgiving number / Sheridan. – Historic Reproduction
(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: Sunset, November 1903--Thanksgiving number / Sheridan., 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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Sunset, November 1903--Thanksgiving number / Sheridan.
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Stanford University football players take center stage in this 1903 poster, drawn for a Thanksgiving issue of Sunset Magazine. The Passenger Department of the Southern Pacific railroad issued it to promote travel across California, and the Sunset Press printed it. Football was still a rough, young sport in 1903, and Stanford was one of the West Coast programs drawing attention, so the image links the railroad's promotion of the state to the holiday season and its college athletics. The record credits the illustration to an artist named Sheridan.
| Created / published | San Francisco, California : published by Passenger Department, Southern Pacific, 1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Posters American 1900-1910.Prints Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1903. Illustration used for Sunset Magazine. Printed by Sunset Press. |
| Subjects | Stanford University--Sports--1900-1910. Football players--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,156 × 1,471 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217104 |
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