Work with care – Antique Poster Print
(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 color woodcut from the Pennsylvania unit of the WPA Federal Art Project, titled *Work with care*, addresses workers who operate machinery. A March 27, 1937 date stamp on the back shows the sheet was handled by that date, though the design itself is catalogued as 1936 or 1937. During the Depression, the Federal Art Project employed artists to make inexpensive posters for public information, and workplace safety was one of its recurring themes. Christopher DeNoon's catalog of WPA posters includes this example.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : woodcut color. |
| 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. 236 · Hauptmann Gerhart 1862-1946. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Saftey--1930-1940. Machinery--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,209 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 718_Work_with_care_1936 |
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