- Description
- 1 poster ; 54 x 41 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Denishawn Collection.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Posters.
- Note
- Poster depicts a bare-breasted woman with a skirt and headdress in ancient Egyptian style, seated in the doorway of a tomb-like monument. At the base of the tomb are stylized flowers and an image of a cigarette box with the text "S. Anargyros famous cigarettes Egyptian Deities."
- Biography (note)
- Typed caption label on original mat: "This is the actual poster that Ruth St. Denis saw while having an ice cream soda in a Buffalo, New York, drug store. This cigarette poster would act as a catalyst that would create a whole new concept in American dance."
- Publications (note)
- Ruth St. Denis, an unfinished life : an autobiography / Ruth St. Denis. New York : Harper and brothers, 1939, p. 51-53. Poster reproduced opp. p. 51.
- Call Number
- *MGZFH Egy 1
- OCLC
- NYPY96-F480
- Title
Egyptian deities : no better Turkish cigarette can be made [graphic]
- Imprint
[1904]
- Biography
Typed caption label on original mat: "This is the actual poster that Ruth St. Denis saw while having an ice cream soda in a Buffalo, New York, drug store. This cigarette poster would act as a catalyst that would create a whole new concept in American dance."
- Publications
Ruth St. Denis, an unfinished life : an autobiography / Ruth St. Denis. New York : Harper and brothers, 1939, p. 51-53. Poster reproduced opp. p. 51.
- Local Note
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- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
*MGZFH Egy 1