October – Vintage Poster Wall Art
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(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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This vintage poster of October brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
October
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Apple trees and a cider press set this October apart from the other months on the board, marking the autumn harvest as a season of gathering and pressing. The print is a silkscreen, a stencil process the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration used in the late 1930s to produce inexpensive color posters and calendars in quantity. Such works were meant to bring art into schools, post offices and homes during the Depression, and this example shows how the program turned ordinary rural labor into a public image.
| Created / published | [1938] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Calendars 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 316 |
| Subjects | Farm produce--1930-1940. Cider--1930-1940. Apple trees--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,776 × 4,701 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221172 |
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