Work promotes confidence – 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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Step back in time with Work promotes confidence, a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Its slogan, "Work promotes confidence," is printed boldly across this 1936 silkscreen poster, a message aimed at people who had lost jobs during the Depression. The Works Progress Administration, created in 1935, employed artists to design posters for its programs, and silkscreen allowed inexpensive runs in flat, vivid color that could be pasted on walls and storefronts. The record credits the Federal theater Project in New York as sponsor, linking the poster to the WPA's theater arm, which employed actors, writers and directors. Posters like this one aimed to reassure as well as recruit, presenting steady work as a path to self-respect.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 1 · Chorpenning Charlotte B. (Charlotte Barrows) Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Laborers--1930-1950. Work ethic--1930-1950. Employment--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,223 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 551_Work_promotes_confidenc_1936 |
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