Paul Vulpius Help yourself A comedy hit in 3 hilarious acts. – Antique Poster Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Paul Vulpius Help yourself A comedy hit in 3 hilarious acts., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Paul Vulpius Help yourself A comedy hit in 3 hilarious acts.
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*Help Yourself*, billed as a comedy in three acts, is a 1937 silkscreen poster from San Francisco, and its subject list ties the play to banking, a sore point in 1930s California after the bank failures of the early Depression. The poster was produced under the Federal theater Project, a branch of the Works Progress Administration that employed theater workers and staged low-cost productions during the Depression. Paul Vulpius designed it, and his bold, flat color work is typical of the WPA poster series, which used silkscreen to advertise plays, concerts and public events across the country.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | A Federal Theatre Road Attraction - Div. of W.P.A. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Vulpius Paul. Federal Theatre Project (San Francisco Calif.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--San Francisco--1930-1940. Banking--California--1930-1940. Comedies--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,764 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 233_Paul_Vulpius_Help_yours_1937 |
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