Photo, Print, Drawing Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope digital file from original item
About this Item
- Title
- Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope
- Summary
- Motion picture poster for "Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope" show movie audience watching large screen with woman dancing on screen and others in background watching.
- Created / Published
- New York : Metropolitan Print Company, c1896.
- Subject Headings
- - Edison, Thomas A.--(Thomas Alva),--1847-1931--Associated objects
- - Motion picture theaters--1890-1900
- - Motion picture devices--1890-1900
- - Advertisements--1890-1900
- Headings
- Lithographs--Color--1890-1900.
- Motion picture posters--American--1890-1900.
- Posters--American--1890-1900.
- Notes
- - 29057B U.S. Copyright Office.
- - Title from item.
- - Copyright 1896 by Raff & Gammon.
- - No. 29057B2.
- - No. 1. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 250.
- - No. 1. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
- - No. 1a. Exhibited: On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early 20th Century American Art, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2002-03.
- - No. 1a. Exhibited: "Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art, MA, and other venues, 2005-2007.
- Medium
- 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 73 x 97 cm.
- Call Number/Physical Location
- POS - MOT. PIC. - 1896 .V58, no. 1 (C size) [P&P] POS - MOT. PIC. - 1896 .V58, no. 1a Another impression.
- Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Digital Id
- ppmsc 03761 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.03761
- ppmsca 05943 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.05943
- cph 3b52803 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b52803
- cph 3b52607 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b52607
- cph 3a40082 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40082
- cph 3a34013 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a34013
- Library of Congress Control Number
- 2003689462
- Reproduction Number
- LC-DIG-ppmsc-03761 (digital file from original item) LC-DIG-ppmsca-05943 (digital file from original print, no. 1a, post-conservation) LC-USZC4-1297 (color film copy transparency of no. 1a, pre-conservation) LC-USZC4-1102 (color film copy transparency of no. 1) LC-USZ62-39741 (b&w film copy neg. of no. 1) LC-USZ62-33505 (b&w film copy neg. of no. 1)
- Rights Advisory
- No known restrictions on publication.
- Online Format
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- LCCN Permalink
- https://lccn.loc.gov/2003689462
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- Introduction - Moving Image Research at the Library of Congress
- Mission | About This Program | National Film Preservation Board | Programs
- Inventions and Discoveries - John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations
- Scientist and Inventor Thomas Edison
- Free to Use and Reuse: Poster Parade | Free to Use and Reuse Sets
- Free to Use and Reuse: Motion Picture Theaters | Free to Use and Reuse Sets
- Reason Gallery C - American Treasures at the Library of Congress
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- Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-03761 (digital file from original item) LC-DIG-ppmsca-05943 (digital file from original print, no. 1a, post-conservation) LC-USZC4-1297 (color film copy transparency of no. 1a, pre-conservation) LC-USZC4-1102 (color film copy transparency of no. 1) LC-USZ62-39741 (b&w film copy neg. of no. 1) LC-USZ62-33505 (b&w film copy neg. of no. 1)
- Call Number: POS - MOT. PIC. - 1896 .V58, no. 1 (C size) [P&P] POS - MOT. PIC. - 1896 .V58, no. 1a Another impression.
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Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope. , ca. 1896. New York: Metropolitan Print Company. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003689462/.
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(ca. 1896) Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope. , ca. 1896. New York: Metropolitan Print Company. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003689462/.
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Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope. New York: Metropolitan Print Company. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2003689462/>.
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