Image / The Century August midsummer holiday number

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Title: The Century August midsummer holiday number
Creator: Leyendecker, J. C. (Joseph Christian), 1874-1951, artist
Orcutt Litho Co., printer
Century Company, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1896
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
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Description: Image of a woman with long dark hair streaming around her in a flower field; she holds the skirt of her dress up with both hands to hold cut blossoms; the poster advertises the August 1896 issue of the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine.
"Printed from aluminum by W.B. Orcutt Company, N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "Designed by J.C. Leyendecker."--text, bottom left margin. "First prize, Century poster contest. / [Copyright , 1896, by The Century Co.] / Elihu Vedder / F. Hopkinson Smith / Henry J. Hardenbergh, judges."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 53.66 x 39.85 cm (21 1/8 x 15 11/16 in.)
Identifier: priHHC_ART_0000070
414777
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/24060
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Periodicals
Flowers--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Book & magazine posters. (gmgpc)
Source: Huntington Prints and Ephemera Collection
Artist Posters
Large Size
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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