I did not see any specific mention of the poster in the article on a quick scan, but this issue of NEVADA MAGAZINE has its publishing of the poster as being copyrighted by the Central Nevada Museum.would seem to lend credence to its being real.
I went to the museum’s contact information, but I cannot open its email reply account for some reason.
Even if it comes from a museum, I think it’s a modern “souvenir” or gift shop item, much like the poster we had the other day about Abraham Lincoln.
I agree… the fonts look modern and contrived… way too regularly spaced, in order to make it clean and legible… And all large, which is a modern idea.
They want it to look old-ish but not be off putting for children, or reading from 5 feet away.
Most of this looks like Times New Roman, anyway…. which didn’t exist.
Old fonts are often quite iregular, and hard to read… some bits tiny, some huge, squashed together, weighted in odd places, making them thick and thin… with flourishes and shading.
Plus the layout is complicated, with parts that are uneven, and not necessarily legible at a glance.
That’s a complicated question, so it gets a complicated answer. I personally would take it as promoting a live jazz club featuring “hot” jazz; crowded, smoky, musicians on stage.
At the same time, most if not all the people shown appear to be Black, and the whole tableau is lit from below in a garish red which somehow appears to fragment into flame shapes as it climbs. Were they trying to make a point, or were they trying to market the club?
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A fine pair of scurvy seadogs!
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Looks good enough to eat. – – – – – – – hmmmmm …
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Always thought those guys were kinda shifty…
Those cowboys weren’t any better.
this seems totally bogus, the more I look at it.
people weren’t ‘wanted for questioning’ in the old west–and the changing fonts
don’t look right
I did not see any specific mention of the poster in the article on a quick scan, but this issue of NEVADA MAGAZINE has its publishing of the poster as being copyrighted by the Central Nevada Museum.would seem to lend credence to its being real.
I went to the museum’s contact information, but I cannot open its email reply account for some reason.
Even if it comes from a museum, I think it’s a modern “souvenir” or gift shop item, much like the poster we had the other day about Abraham Lincoln.
I agree… the fonts look modern and contrived… way too regularly spaced, in order to make it clean and legible… And all large, which is a modern idea.
They want it to look old-ish but not be off putting for children, or reading from 5 feet away.
Most of this looks like Times New Roman, anyway…. which didn’t exist.
Old fonts are often quite iregular, and hard to read… some bits tiny, some huge, squashed together, weighted in odd places, making them thick and thin… with flourishes and shading.
Plus the layout is complicated, with parts that are uneven, and not necessarily legible at a glance.
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The original Wolverhampton Wanderers?
Football club, I take it?
They were really ahead of their time, if their rules allowed both women and bicycles in play!
While looking for a wanted poster, I happened to see this one… an original copy, for only about $7,000!
Gustav Dore
Free Grumpy!!
…….With every five gallons.
I don’t really think Gustav Doré was inclined to sign his work H. Pisan.
That did happen when engravers made copies of paintings, to sell as black and white prints or for book illustrations.. . though they usually signed them “after so & so”… but Doré was an engraver.
So I’m..uh… thinking this must be the work of Héliodore Pisan, another French engraver of the same period.
thanks!
Sorry… I had to!
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Did they think these places were evil, so make it look like an inferno?
Or was it just “hot jazz”?
Yes.
That’s a complicated question, so it gets a complicated answer. I personally would take it as promoting a live jazz club featuring “hot” jazz; crowded, smoky, musicians on stage.
At the same time, most if not all the people shown appear to be Black, and the whole tableau is lit from below in a garish red which somehow appears to fragment into flame shapes as it climbs. Were they trying to make a point, or were they trying to market the club?
That got my attention.
Be careful scrolling past it.
I almost feel like it’s cheating when they’re actually gifs.
Cheez whiz, Nighthawks. I’m thinking it’s
Yup.
can’t get too much of M.F.
Oh. Air Force.
The whole kitten caboodle!