June – Antique Poster Print
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(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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This rare vintage poster captures June in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A June scene of a seaside amusement park, with a roller coaster rising over the beach, places the season squarely in summer leisure. The sheet is a color silkscreen from 1938, made under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, which turned silkscreen into an inexpensive way to produce posters and calendar designs for public use. Many of these works celebrated recreation and community life during the Depression, and this one shows how the country's boardwalks and rides were pictured as everyday pleasures. Its later reproduction in a 1987 book on WPA posters helped keep such images in circulation.
| Created / published | [1938] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Calendars 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 316 |
| Subjects | Beaches--1930-1940. Roller coasters--1930-1940. Amusement parks--1930-1940. Recreation--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,756 × 4,682 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221168 |
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