A four-card lobby set for Wellman's Paramount drama of drifters and boxcars. Displayed in the lobby to promise the danger and grit inside the picture. All four are Commons-verified 1928 originals, past the U.S. public-domain wall. Boxcar drama, printed bold

Maker: Unknown
Date: 1928
Medium of the original: Lobby card
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00850

As chosen: 14 x 11 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	14 x 11 in
Outside size	15.6 x 12.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	221	Excellent	Trimmed 1.3%
14 x 11 in	160	Good	Trimmed 0.5%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
16 x 12 in	140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
20 x 16 in	110 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
24 x 18 in	93 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
30 x 24 in	73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
40 x 30 in	56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	46 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 2,245 x 1,773 px, srgb, c2
Tone: Darks 17, lights 230 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 4.6