Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope: History and Collection Facts

Catalogue description

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.

Collection details

• Catalogue date: c1896.
• Original format: Photo, print, drawing
• Medium: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 73 x 97 cm.
• Language: English
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Call number: POS - MOT. PIC. - 1896 .V58, no. 1 (C size) [P&P] POS - MOT. PIC. - 1896 .V58, no. 1a Another impression.
• Catalogue subjects: Motion picture theaters--1890-1900; Motion picture devices--1890-1900; Advertisements--1890-1900; Edison, Thomas A.--(Thomas Alva),--1847-1931--Associated objects

Catalogue notes

• 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: "Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art, MA, and other venues, 2005-2007.
• 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.

Sources and reuse

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