Summary

DescriptionEdison's Greatest Marvel-The Vitascope - Restoration.jpg	Edison's Greatest Marvel--The Vitascope label QS:Len,"Edison's Greatest Marvel--The Vitascope" Poster for The Vitascope showing a movie audience, watching a large screen with women dancing on it. A small orchestra plays in front of the screen. The theatre has a box which several more people have packed into. The Library of Congress places the scene in New York, this, combined with the date, would make this the April 23, 1896 reveal of the technology at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York City. Lithographic colour poster, height: 97 cm (38.1 in); width: 73 cm (28.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,97U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,73U174728 29057B U.S. Copyright Office
Date	1896
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Author	Metropolitan Print Company; Copyright 1896 by Raff & Gammon
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Exhibition history:

• No. 1. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 250.
• No. 1. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; 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.

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