Newmann's Wonderful Spirit Mysteries poster – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare vintage poster captures Newmann's Wonderful Spirit Mysteries poster in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Newmann's Wonderful Spirit Mysteries poster
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Newmann's Wonderful Spirit Mysteries puts a performer's name and the promise of the supernatural at the center of its bold lettering, the kind of pitch built to catch a passerby's eye in 1911. Spirit entertainments of that era drew on the wide public fascination with spiritualism, séances, and claimed contact with the dead, and they played in theaters and traveling halls alike. Posters were the main advertising for such shows, so their dramatic imagery was meant to draw a crowd from the street. Today the piece fits naturally among Halloween material, since the holiday has long been tied to ghosts and the uncanny.
| Original scan | 2,483 × 3,600 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1646u 1911 |
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