A profile Thurston stares down a smoking skull in his palm while a green fog carries drifting spirit-women, red devils, disembodied hands and a trumpet. The Otis Litho treatment of the spirit poster — showing how a headliner ran the same theme through competing lithographers.

Maker: Otis Lithograph Co. (Cleveland)
Medium of the original: Colour lithograph poster
Original held by: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-02078

As chosen: 16 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	600	Excellent	Trimmed 0.8%
12 x 18 in	400	Excellent	Trimmed 0.8%
16 x 24 in	300	Excellent	Trimmed 0.8%
20 x 30 in	240	Excellent	Trimmed 0.8%
24 x 36 in	200	Excellent	Trimmed 0.8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
40 x 60 in	120 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged