Work with care – Vintage Print
![Work with care, Pennsylvania: WPA Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/11/11d67aa8ddd5-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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A window into the past: Work with care, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Riveting, the hot-driven iron or steel pin work that joined girders, boilers and ship hulls, was among the most hazardous trades of the 1930s, and this poster addresses that danger directly with the blunt message "Work with care." It was produced under the Pennsylvania branch of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, which employed artists during the Depression and turned many of its safety and public-information posters into color woodcuts and silkscreens. The record gives a date of about 1936 or 1937, and a handstamp on the back reads March 27, 1937. Its inclusion in the Library of Congress WPA poster collection makes it a useful example of how New Deal artists applied graphic design to workplace safety.
| Created / published | Pennsylvania: WPA Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : woodcut, color. |
| Genre | Posters 1930-1940.Woodcuts Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 210 |
| Subjects | Riveting--1930-1940. Safety--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,172 × 1,470 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218879 |
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