The Trooper of Troop K
Unknown, 1917
$235
Print check at 16 x 24 in: 182 dpi, good. Trimmed 5.9% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A 1917 poster for the Lincoln Motion Picture Company production, dramatising the 1916 Carrizal engagement in which the Army's Black Tenth Cavalry took heavy losses. Lincoln was the first film company founded and run by Black Americans, formed expressly to put dignified Black characters on screen against an industry that would not. Taking a real cavalry action as its subject was a direct claim on national military memory. The poster advertises a documented battle rather than a genre situation - an unusual and pointed choice for a 1917 independent release. A history the mainstream screen declined to film.
- Maker
- Unknown
- Date
- 1917
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00785
| Picture | 16 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 25.6 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 365 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.9% |
| 12 x 18 in | 243 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.9% |
| 16 x 24 in | 182 | Good | Trimmed 5.9% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 146 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 121 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,920 x 4,653 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 53, lights 239 of 255; 0.5% clipped light, 1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0.6% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.52
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