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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
The Best Guide to Boston, Poster by Ethel Reed
Ethel Reed (1874-1912) · Boston Illustrated (guidebook), 1898
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
Ethel Reed's colour lithograph for the guidebook Boston Illustrated, 'for sale here: price 50 cents'. The record dates it between 1898 and 1900; the sheet is 45.9 by 28.9 cm.
Why it matters
Reed's own working city sells itself here, on a counter card that names its price.
What to notice
The price is on the poster, which makes it a shop card as much as a picture.
A city's guide, sold at the counter.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- Ethel Reed (1874-1912)
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Boston Illustrated (guidebook), 1898
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2014645310
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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