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Theatrical poster for Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Christian reservations about
the theater prevented her from ever sharing in the profits
garnered from the dramatization of her best-selling novel.
Theatrical companies throughout the North staged what
each billed as the authentic version of Uncle Tom’s
Cabin. Stage managers collectively made millions of
dollars, and productions reached a peak in the 1890s,
when this theater poster was printed in Erie, Pennsylvania. |
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Erie Lithograph Company (active 1890s)
Color lithograph poster, circa 1890
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer
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