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Year: 1974

Size: 26 1/4 x 40 inches

Printed in 1974, it advertises the Premio Casa de Las Americas, and was printed in Cuba.

Year: ca. 1910

Size: 24 7/8 x 18 3/8 in./63.2 x 46.6 cm

Condition: A-/ Unobtrusive folds

This remarkably detailed poster promotes a rubber company based in New York. Shown is a painterly panorama of the Manhattan skyline from the North River (known today as the Hudson River), with each building and ship identified below. The massive White Star Line's RMS Oceanic is seen departing the harbor on a return trip to Liverpool and Southampton; she was the largest ship in the world until 1901.

Year: 1969

Size: 30 x 45 inches

This poster advertises Risto Jarva's French Sci-Fi film Time of Roses.

Year: ca. 1893

Size: 29 7/8 x 39 3/8 in

Condition: B/ Slight tears at folds and edges.

The family likeness is clear in this triple portrait of the Sells Brothers, one of the first big touring circuses in the U.S. In 1862, they created a circus. It failed. Then they worked in auctions, following circuses around to take advantage of the crowds to sell their merchandise. They were the Sells Brothers, after all. After taking an interest in Cannonball George Richards, one of the first Human Cannonball acts, they grew their traveling circus from 1872 to 1895, but faced increased competition from Adam Forepaugh and Barnum & Bailey. This poster, toward the end of their reign, attests that they are "sole proprietors" in a burst of family bootstraps pride; two years later, the Sells Brothers would merge with Forepaugh.

Size: 14 1/8 x 41 1/2 inches

Condition: A- / slight tears at edges

Magnificent and ferocious creatures are the focus of this advertisement for the Seils Sterling Circus and their "show of a thousand wonders." Here, wild cats, a camel, and an elephant rest in their natural habitat of grassy plains, exhibiting both threatening bared teeth and more relaxed expressions. This is a half-sheet vertical poster.

Year: ca. 1980s

Size: 30 x 46 inches

Printed in the 1980s, the poster advertises the PBS Masterpiece Theater production of Sunset Song, based on the novel of the same name by Louis Grassic Gibbon. The caption reads: "Love my change, but the land is eternal: A drama set in the Scottish highlands in the shadow of war." It was a six-part series.

Year: 1968

Size: 30 x 45 inches

Printed in 1968, it is advertising the British film festival of The Films of Buster Keaton.

Year: ca. 1920

Size: 20 x 30 inches

Condition: A

The Forty Thieves first premiered on stage at Drury Lane in London in 1806; by 1860, it had spawned a wide variety of burlesque adaptations starring women in all of the male roles. An 1886 rendition of the silent play was highly praised: "The most greatly admired aspect of The Forty Thieves was the splendour, beauty, and variety of costumes... Almost all critics agreed that nothing so splendid had ever been seen on the stage; the Echo thought that every scene 'is a beautiful work of pictorial art'" (Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910, p. vii). Though undated, we believe this pantomime promotion is from ca. 1920.

Year: ca. 1915

Size: 27 3/4 x 38 3/8 inches

Condition: C+/ Restored tears at folds and edges.

“Chetvertaya Zhena,” or "The Fourth Wife," was directed by prominent Russian director Joseph N. Ermolieff, who is best known for his 1936 film, "The Czar's Courier." Unfortunately, no information on the actual plot has been discovered, rendering this a simply fascinating piece of graphic work.

Year: 1912

Size: 28 1/4 x 48 inches

Condition: A- / slight tears in tip-on

Year: 1912

Size: 42 1/4 x 35 inches

Condition: A

Unlike most of Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows and the posters made for them, this scene, depicted for Barnsdale's film screening, is much more graphically dramatic and violent. Most of the posters Buffalo Bill commissioned for his shows employed a further vantage point and less attackers filling the scene—and certainly, less gore! Regardless, it provides an interesting perspective on how advertising imagery had shifted toward the end of Buffalo Bill's life. This version includes a Barnsdale tip-on.

Size: 5 x 9 in.

206 pages

Softcover

Language: French

Limited-edition facsimile of the 1896 catalogue of probably the most important poster exhibition ever held. A total of 1,690 works are listed.

Size: 19 1/2 x 29 7/8 in

Condition: B+/ Slight tears at edges.

Two "Laurel & Hardy" clowns are out of the Big Top and on the town for a stroll. Mr. Stout, reading from a songsheet, steadies himself with a short-barreled shotgun for a cane. The taller of the two, smoking from a Meerschaum pipe, has a tea kettle steaming on his head and a doddering pup at his feet. They're clowns; they're not supposed to make sense.

Year: ca. 1920's

Size: 37 1/4 x 27 3/8 inches

Condition: B / slight tears at folds

The 1920s propaganda campaign, "Reich Committee for the German referendum," or "Reichsausschuss," aimed to hold a referendum on the acceptance or rejection of the Young Plan—the last of the post-World War I reparations plans that regulated the payment obligations of the German Reich on the basis of the Treaty of Versailles. Here, the tumultuous affair is rendered as a bloodied scene, in which a wagon carrying a mother and child are being tugged from either side, supposedly by figures of good and evil. The text below reads, "Vote 'yes' at the people's referendum to get out of filth, misery, and suffering."

Year: ca. 1970s

Size: 30 x 43 3/4 inches

Created to advertise the launch of the Marx Brothers book Why A Duck and illustrated by Hirschfeld, the poster features a film still from the movie Duck Soup, with the lines from the scene captioned below in decorative bubbles.