Lithograph advertising the Whitney Opera, circa 1900

Calling ahead for tickets was still relatively new in the year 1900, and it’s interesting to see it used as a promotional device in this lithograph. The poster is an advertisement for the Whitney Opera Company production of A Normandy Wedding, a comic operetta that opened in 1898. I’ve not seen an intact example of this poster, and had to do a little Photoshop work to recreate the missing top left corner. It’s probably not 100% faithful to the original, but it should be pretty close. You might get a kick out of seeing the “pre-repair” image or an interesting variation of the poster, with numerous subtle, but distinct, differences.