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The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
The Echo, Chicago's New Paper, Poster by Will H. Bradley
Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) · The Echo (Chicago), 1895
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
Will H. Bradley's 1895 colour lithograph for The Echo, 'Chicago's new paper', announcing 'a series of colored frontispieces by Will H. Bradley'.
Why it matters
Bradley came to Chicago at seventeen as a wood engraver and typographer; the Saturday Evening Post later called him the Dean of American Designers.
What to notice
The poster advertises the paper and its artist at once. Bradley put his own name in the pitch.
The designer as the headline.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- Will H. Bradley (1868-1962)
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- The Echo (Chicago), 1895
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 99471638
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. Will Bradley died in 1962, so the work stays in copyright in life-plus-70 countries until 1 January 2033. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; look before any EU or UK order.
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