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Image Title: Edison's Greatest Marvel--The Vitascope, 1896

Date: 1896.

Summary: Motion picture poster for "Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope" show movie audience watching large screen with woman dancing on screen and others in background watching.

Notes: No. 1. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.|No. 1a. Exhibited: On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early 20th Century American Art, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2002-03.|No. 1a. Exhibited: "Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art, MA, and other venues, 2005-2007.

Subjects: Advertisements--1890-1900
Edison, Thomas A.--(Thomas Alva),--1847-1931--Associated objects
Motion picture devices--1890-1900
Motion picture theaters--1890-1900

Original Media: Poster|Lithograph

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