The vacation reading club - join now at your public library – Historic Reproduction
![The vacation reading club - join now at your public library, Iowa : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0e/0e4e56c9a4f9-L.webp)
(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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The vacation reading club - join now at your public library comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The vacation reading club - join now at your public library
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The title sets this poster apart: it invites readers to join a "vacation reading club" at the public library, a summer program aimed at keeping people reading while school was out.
| Created / published | Iowa : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Posters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: May 25 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 198 |
| Subjects | Reading--Iowa--1930-1940. Book clubs--Iowa--1930-1940. Libraries--Iowa--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,348 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173162 |
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