Arabella and Araminta Stories by Gertrude Smith – Historic 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: Arabella and Araminta Stories by Gertrude Smith, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Arabella and Araminta Stories by Gertrude Smith
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The poster promotes a book of stories about twin sisters, Arabella and Araminta, by Gertrude Smith (1860–1917). The record credits the color design to Ethel Reed, a Boston poster artist active in the 1890s, but it also gives a date of 1876, which conflicts with Reed's birth year, so both the attribution and the date should be treated as unverified. Publishers of that era often used bold color posters like this one to sell fiction in bookshops and on city billboards. The design's emphasis on the pair of twins makes the advertisement easy to recognize as a product of the period's poster boom.
| Created / published | 1895 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 69 x 40 cm. |
| Notes | Color poster by Ethel Reed, 1876. Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1895. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Smith, Gertrude, 1860-1917. Arabella and Araminta Stories. II. Title. Women; Twins. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 883 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172758 |
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