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Theater magic – Vintage Poster Wall Art

Theater magic, 1938 — vintage poster
Theater magic, 1938. Vintage poster from the Theater Posters collection.

(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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Theater magic is a 1938 lithograph from an edition of 60, signed with initials on the printing stone and signed and dated in pencil. Its title points to the stage conjuror, a popular draw on American vaudeville and theater bills in the 1930s, when illusion acts and sleight-of-hand performers toured widely. The Library of Congress acquired the print by purchase with the Pennell fund, and Karen Beall's 1970 catalog of the library's American prints lists it.

Created / published1938
Medium1 print : lithograph ; 26 x 25.4 cm.
NotesEdition of 60. Signed with initials on stone; signed and dated in pencil. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 459. Purchase; Pennell fund.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,439 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136799

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