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Before the White Man Came
A chief in a war bonnet on horseback.
What
A 1920 American one-sheet for Before the White Man Came, a silent Western from the Northwestern Film Corporation, released through Arrow and printed by the Otis Lithograph Company.
Why
John E. Maple directed it with an entirely Native American cast of Crow and Cheyenne people, one of the few films of its era to have one.
Notice
The tagline "WITH AN ALL INDIAN CAST" runs under the title, and the Arrow emblem sits at the foot.
“A Crow and Cheyenne cast”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Before the White Man Came (1920), dir. John E. Maple
- Country / studio
- United States · Northwestern Film Corporation
- Printer / stone
- Otis Lithograph Company
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. one-sheet, colour lithograph, 1920
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
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