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Edison's Greatest Marvel--The Vitascope
label QS:Len,"Edison's Greatest Marvel--The Vitascope"
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. Scene from New York. Lithographic colour poster, height: 97 cm (38.1 in); width: 73 cm (28.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,97U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,73U174728
29057B U.S. Copyright Office
Date circa 1896
date QS:P,+1896-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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under the digital ID ppmsca.05943.
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Author Metropolitan Print Company; Copyright 1896 by Raff & Gammon
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Exhibition history:

  • 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.

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