A theatrical broadside advertisement, giving notice of a continued successful run of John Wilkes Booth’s appearance as Romeo in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in Boston in May 1864, less than a year before he shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on April 15, 1865, in Washington .THE WANAMAKER VEST POCKET SUBWAY GUIDE. 12.5 cm Read More »
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The First New York City Subway Map, 1904. THE WANAMAKER VEST POCKET SUBWAY GUIDE.
[New York City Subway] THE WANAMAKER VEST POCKET SUBWAY GUIDE. 12.5 cm x 13 cm, an unfolded cardboard postcard created as promotional advertising for the new New York City Wanamaker department store at Astor Place, which featured its own store entrance directly from the subway platform. Augustyn and Cohen, in MANHATTAN MAPS 1527 – 2014 Read More »
Japanese Woodcut NUDE by Nakao Yoshitaka
Nude. 1960. A six-color woodblock print in dark blue, grey, red-brown, light-brown, black and white, 34 inches x 22 inches, on a sheet of handmade Japanese paper made especially for this artist to hold his unusually thick colors 36 ½ inches x 24½ inches, framed under glass 40½ in x 29¾ in since 1960. Signed Read More »
