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Doll and buggy parade--WPA recreation project Dist. No. 2 / Beard. – Historic Poster Reproduction

Doll and buggy parade--WPA recreation project Dist. No. 2 / Beard., 1939 — vintage poster
Doll and buggy parade--WPA recreation project Dist. No. 2 / Beard., 1939. Vintage poster from the WPA Posters collection.

(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 silkscreen poster from 1939 that advertises a doll and buggy parade put on by the WPA recreation project in District No. 2 in Illinois, with children as both the marchers and the audience. The Works Progress Administration, renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939, ran community recreation programs during the Depression, and local events like this one gave kids a chance to play together when money was scarce. Federal Art Project artists designed many posters like this to promote such activities, and this one shows how the agency used bright color and simple graphics to reach families in small towns and city neighborhoods.

Created / published1939
Medium1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color.
NotesWork Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor.
SubjectsParades & processions--Illinois--1930-1940. Baby carriages--Illinois--1930-1940. Children playing with dolls--Illinois--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection
Original scan2,758 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference221_Doll_and_buggy_paradeWP_1939

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