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Poster for "The Cow-Boy Girl"

Date: 1907
Description: Color lithograph poster advertising the musical "The Cow-boy Girl" depicting Pa trying to talk to Ma through her ear horn. Kilroy and Britton were the prod...
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Ike & Tina Turner Show Poster

Date: 06 1971
Description: Poster advertising for a concert by Ike and Tina Turner at the Dane County Coliseum, in Madison, Wisconsin, June 26th, 1971. Features a picture of Tina Tur...
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Fleetwood Mac at Dewey's

Date: 02 21 1971
Description: Poster advertising a performance by Fleetwood Mac at Dewey's. Features an outdoor photograph of the band.
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Under the Gaslight Poster

Date: 1867
Description: Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w...
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Poster for Morris Brothers' Opera House Minstrels

Date: 1857
Description: Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto...
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Poster for "Rip Van Winkle"

Date: 1905
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Across top in caps "A splendid scenic revival of the greatest of American dramas." Title runs beneath. Scene from play in which ...
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Poster for "Don't Lie to Your Wife"

Date: 1912
Description: Color lithograph. The top banner reads: "C.S. Primrose presents the musical comedy farce 'Don't Lie to Your Wife'." Below this, upper right, is the author'...
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Poster for "Uncle Josh Spruceby"

Date: 1890
Description: Color lithograph poster. Top banner "Uncle Josh Spruceby" with insert left containing picture of Uncle Josh. The image depicts a scene from the play with a...
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Joseph Papp presents Festival Latino in New York

Date: 08 1986
Description: Poster promoting the 1986 New York Festival Latino, which was founded in 1976, produced by Joseph Papp, a Broadway producer, and directed by Oscar Ciccone ...
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Film Festival Rotterdam: Guests of '87

Date: 1987
Description: Poster advertising filmmakers in attendance at the 1987 Film Festival Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The poster shows 49 photographs of the 53 filmmakers. ...
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"Underground"

Date: 1976
Description: Poster advertising a screening of Emile de Antonio's 1976 documentary film "Underground," at Harvard's Science Center B. Poster shows a scene from the movi...
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Hidden Valley Poster

Date: 1916
Description: Poster for the film Hidden Valley featuring Valkyrien (Baroness Dewitz). Features an image of a woman with long curly blonde hair wearing a laurel w...
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The Shine Girl Poster

Date: 1916
Description: Poster for the film The Shine Girl starring Gladys Hulette. The poster shows a woman smiling and looking over her shoulder. Her hand is on her dress...
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"Černý Petr" (Black Peter) Film Poster

Date: 1964
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster with a white background and black lettering. Along the bottom is a photographic image of three young men and a woman talking, s...
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"Vojandy" (The Camp Followers) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Italian film "Le Soldatesse." A small photographic cut-out image of a woman's legs, along with an equally small cut-out...
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"90 minut překvapení" (90 Minute Surprise) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Pink image of a woman resting her head on her hands. Four black silhouette hands cover different parts of her body and feature...
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"Das verbrecherische Leben des Archibaldo de la Cruz" (The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz) Film Poster

Date: 1964
Description: German poster for the Mexican film "Ensayo de un Crimen." Close-up photographic image of a hand gripping the illustration of a woman's neck against a white...
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"Die Hand in der Falle" (The Hand in the Trap) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: German film poster for the Argentine film, "La mano en la trampa." Black and white photographic image of a woman standing and wearing a dress with the rota...
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"Der blaue Engel" (The Blue Angel) Film Poster

Date: 1964
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the film, "Der blaue Engel." Illustrated image in shades of blue of a woman with wings coming from her sides. Belo...
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"Die Nacht mit dem Teufel" (The Devil's Envoys) Film Poster

Date: 1960
Description: German film poster for the French film, "Les visiteurs du soir." Illustrated image of a woman's head wearing a tall hat.

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