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Colonne-affiches pour les Théâtres, menuiserie, fonte et zinc (Cie Morris) (Poster Column for Theatres, Housewares, Iron, and Zinc [Morris Company])

Charles Marville French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 691

One of the emblems of Haussmann’s Paris, cylindrical kiosks were part of a broader impetus to define and control the proliferation
of printed advertising that had transformed the city, in the words of one writer, into “an immense wall of posters scattered from the chimneys down to the sidewalks with clusters of squares of paper of all colors and formats.”

Colonne-affiches pour les Théâtres, menuiserie, fonte et zinc (Cie Morris) (Poster Column for Theatres, Housewares, Iron, and Zinc [Morris Company]), Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris), Albumen silver print from glass negative

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