Please keep the park clean – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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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Please keep the park clean comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Boys at play outdoors anchor this 1938 silkscreen, which asks visitors to keep an Ohio state park clean. Artists Lynn Root and Harry Clork produced it under the Works Progress Administration's poster program, and the Federal theater Project sponsored it. In the 1930s, federal crews were building and improving parks across the country, and a printed reminder like this was meant to protect those new facilities. A date stamp on the back reads October 18, 1938, which helps place the poster in time.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Oct 18 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Root Lynn 1905- Clork Harry. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Children playing outdoors--Ohio--1930-1940. Boys--1930-1940. State parks & reserves--Ohio--1930-1940. Conservation of natural resources--Ohio--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,625 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 276_Please_keep_the_park_cl_1938 |
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