Typophile

Please help identify Vaudeville poster font (ca. 1910)

DaleBCooper

Stage magician Howard Thurston (July 20, 1869 – April 13, 1936) used this logo on many of his beautiful show posters. He had the largest traveling Vaudeville magic show for the time.

Can you id the two fonts used?

Thanks.

-Dale

Michael Yanega

In those days such lettering was almost always hand-drawn.However, you should be able to find some close enough sans serifs to create a reasonable imitation of this look. Clearface Gothic and some other Gothic fonts would be the proper age to have been available then, even though neither of these would be identical to them.

- Mike Yanega

DaleBCooper

Mike, thanks so much for your input.

I figured that there was no "one" font here.

- Dale

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