Dont kill our wild life – 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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A window into the past: Dont kill our wild life, 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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The record lists deer and automobiles as its main subjects, so this poster ties wildlife protection to the car-filled roads of the mid-1930s, when more Americans were driving into forests and parks. It was made under the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, which produced silkscreen posters on public-service themes during the Depression. The attributed designer is John Wagner. A date stamp on the back, July 1940, shows the board was later filed within the National Park Service, which used such posters to promote conservation.
| Created / published | 1936 |
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| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jul 18 1940. Department of the Interior National Park Service. Poster design attributed to John Wagner. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 171 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | United States. National Park Service--Public relations--1930-1940. Wildlife conservation--United States--1930-1940. Deer--1930-1940. Automobiles--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,155 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 498_Dont_kill_our_wild_life_1936 |
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