WPA Federal Theatre Project 891 - presents Horse eats hat Maxine Elliotts Theatre. – Vintage Poster
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of WPA Federal Theatre Project 891 - presents Horse eats hat Maxine Elliotts Theatre.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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WPA Federal Theatre Project 891 - presents Horse eats hat Maxine Elliotts Theatre.
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Few posters on this board announce a farce about a horse eating a hat, which the Federal theater Project staged at Maxine Elliott's theater in New York. The play draws on Eugène Labiche's French comedy *The Italian Straw Hat*, a story of mishaps built around a missing hat. The Federal theater Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, employed out-of-work theater people during the Depression and staged productions for low-cost audiences across the city. Ward Theodore's silkscreen design is a good example of the bold, flat color the WPA used to advertise its shows.
| Created / published | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Ward Theodore 1902-1983. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950. Horses--1930-1950. Hats--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,794 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 578_WPA_Federal_Theatre_Pro_1990 |
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