Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World / Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y. – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World / Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World / Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
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The poster bills the show as the Congress of Rough Riders of the World, and its subjects pair Buffalo Bill Cody with Napoleon I and the French animal painter Rosa Bonheur, a combination that sets it apart from the show's more typical cowboy and Indian imagery. Courier Litho. Co. of Buffalo printed it around 1896, when Cody's Wild West was touring the United States and Europe with a company of riders from many nations. Bonheur, famous for her paintings of horses, was among the admirers Cody met in Paris, and the poster's invocation of European figures signals the show's ambition to present the American frontier as a spectacle with international reach.
| Created / published | Buffalo, New York : Courier Litho. Co., c1896. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Circus posters 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | No. 1609. |
| Subjects | Buffalo Bill,--1846-1917. Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821. Bonheur, Rosa,--1822-1899. Wild west shows--United States--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,280 × 872 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216467 |
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