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Jennie Yeamans Our Jennie – Vintage Wall Art

Jennie Yeamans Our Jennie, 1887 — vintage poster
Jennie Yeamans Our Jennie, 1887. Vintage poster from the Circus & Carnival 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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Step back in time with Jennie Yeamans Our Jennie, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Jennie Yeamans, the American comic actress and singer, is the figure at the center of this tall color lithograph, which was printed in 1887 by the Forbes Company of Boston and New York to advertise her stage work. The poster's subjects, flowers and bamboo, suggest the decorative, Japanese-inspired style that was fashionable in Western art and theater during the 1880s. Yeamans, who was born in 1862 and died in 1906, built a career on light musical comedy and burlesque, and posters like this one were a standard way for touring performers to draw audiences into the house.

Created / published1887
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 211 x 108 cm.
NotesCreated by Forbes Co. Boston & N.Y. Copyright 1887 by Jennie Yeamans. · Yeamans Jennie 1862-1906.
SubjectsYeamans Jennie 1862-1906--Performances. Flowers. Bamboo. Musical revues & comedies.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Performing Arts Posters
Original scan1,047 × 1,986 px · prints to 3 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-THR-272916

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