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Gilded Age Theatre Posters Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 20 Printable Pieces

Gilded Age Theatre Posters Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 20 Printable Pieces

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A ready-made vintage theatre junk journal kit of 20 printable theatre posters from 1891 to 1903, printed in bold colour lithography by the Strobridge company: stage stars Julia Arthur as Juliet, Julia Marlowe, Eleanor Robson, Annie Russell, Fanny Rice and Mrs Fiske, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It, Ben-Hur, Old Orchard and Caleb West, Aladdin Jr. ballet girls, four posters for Imre Kiralfy's Venice spectacle at Olympia in London, and Kellar the magician. Show-bill lettering and rich poster colours make them perfect for theatre and stage-themed journals, collage, planners, scrapbooking, card making and tags.

Print sizes at 300 dpi (they vary by piece type; files are never resized):
• Colour lithograph theatre posters (20): about 6 × 9 in up to 7 × 10 in, journal pages, inserts and A5 prints
Everything also prints smaller (A5, A6, tags, ATCs) with no loss.

Pieces included: Julia Arthur in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1899; Julia Marlowe, 1899; Elizabeth Kennedy in Shakespeare's As You Like It, 1903; An all-star cast in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, 1903; Eleanor Robson, 1903; Annie Russell in Mice and Men, 1903; "Yours, Fanny Rice", 1895; Elsa Ryan, "America's daintiest comedy queen", 1902; Mrs Fiske in Mary of Magdala, 1902; Phroso, a new play by Anthony Hope, 1898; Old Orchard, a play of New England life, 1900; Caleb West, Jacob Litt's production, 1900; Ben-Hur, Klaw & Erlanger's production, 1901; Aladdin Jr., American Extravaganza Co., 1894; Aladdin Jr., ballet girls, 1894; Imre Kiralfy's Venice at Olympia, London, 1891; Imre Kiralfy's Venice, the Bride of the Sea, 1891; Imre Kiralfy's Venice ballet spectacle, 1891; Imre Kiralfy's Venice, gondolas and state barge, 1891; Kellar the magician, 1899.

Files: 20 high-resolution JPGs in one zip download (55 MB). Pixel sizes: posters about 2,600–3,100 px on the long edge. These are the full-size museum and library scans. Nothing is cropped or resized: each poster is shown whole, sheet edges included.

Source and rights: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Performing Arts Posters (Theatrical Poster Collection), digital files scanned from the original posters; "no known restrictions on publication". Colour lithographs printed 1891–1903 by the Strobridge Lithographing Co., Cincinnati, whose staff poster artists are unrecorded.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.

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