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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 Exiles and Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis, Poster by Edward Penfield
Edward Penfield (1866-1925) · The Exiles and Other Stories, by Richard Harding Davis, 1903
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
Edward Penfield's colour lithograph for Richard Harding Davis's story collection The Exiles, dated 1903 in the record; 38 by 26 cm.
Why it matters
Publishers used the same poster grammar for books as for magazines: one figure, a title, a name the reader already trusted.
What to notice
The author gets top billing. Davis was the selling point.
A book you met in a shop window first.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- Edward Penfield (1866-1925)
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- The Exiles and Other Stories, by Richard Harding Davis, 1903
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2006675103
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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