The Bill Poster's Dream: Museum Object and Cultural History
The Bill Poster's Dream: Date made: 1877. copyright holder: Novelty Publishing Co.. maker: Mayer, Ferdinand.
The object in the museum catalogue
Color print depicting a young man in lower left asleep with his head propped against a lamppost. City buildings are in the background. Numerous advertising posters are pasted on a wall beside him. They are arranged so that they are humorous when read from top to bottom.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1877
- copyright holder: Novelty Publishing Co.
- maker: Mayer, Ferdinand
- maker: Meineke, Emil
- Object Name: lithograph
- Object Type: Lithograph
- Measurements: image: 14 1/4 in x 20 1/4 in; 36.195 cm x 51.435 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- Subject: Lighting, outdoor
- Subject: Architecture
- Subject: Communication, newspapers
- Subject: Expositions and Fairs
- Subject: Comic prints
- Subject: Chronology: 1870-1879
- Subject: Fire Fighting
- Subject: Political Parties
- ID Number: DL.60.3079
- catalog number: 60.3079
- accession number: 228146
- Credit Line: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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