A good lunch - one hot dish meat vegetables - sandwich - fruit - milk WPA school lunc – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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 good lunch - one hot dish meat vegetables - sandwich - fruit - milk WPA school lunc 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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A good lunch - one hot dish meat vegetables - sandwich - fruit - milk WPA school lunc
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A Good Lunch" presents school meals as a lesson in nutrition, with its title reading like a direct instruction to the viewer. It belongs to the broader body of posters produced under the Works Progress Administration, the New Deal agency that employed artists through the Federal Art Project in the 1930s. During the Depression, many of these posters promoted health, nutrition and public services to communities where money for food was scarce. Its place on a board of fruit and vegetable labels points to the emphasis on fresh produce as part of a balanced meal.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jul 7 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Children eating & drinking--Oklahoma--1930-1950. School meals--Oklahoma--1930-1950. Nutrition--Oklahoma--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,644 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 324_A_good_lunch_one_hot_d_1936 |
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