Defense! Long Island women : Home defense day : Exhibits - demonstrations - lectures - drills - music / JD. – Historic Print
![Defense! Long Island women : Home defense day : Exhibits - demonstrations - lectures - drills - music / JD., [New York] : New York State W.P.A. Art Project, [1941] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1e/1eb50b149b62-L.webp)
(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: Defense! Long Island women : Home defense day : Exhibits - demonstrations - lectures - drills - music / JD., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Defense! Long Island women : Home defense day : Exhibits - demonstrations - lectures - drills - music / JD.
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Aimed at women on Long Island, this silkscreen poster announces a Home Defense Day of exhibits, demonstrations, lectures, drills and music. It dates from 1941, before the United States entered World War II, when local governments were beginning to recruit civilians for defense work. The Works Progress Administration's New York State art project produced it, and the flag in the design makes the patriotic appeal plain. The date stamped on the back, May 14, 1941, places it in the spring of that year.
| Created / published | [New York] : New York State W.P.A. Art Project, [1941] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Posters 1940-1950.Screen prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: May 14 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Civil defense--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950. Flags--American--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,432 × 3,750 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-214776 |
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