Federal Music presents Gilbert & Sullivans light opera The gondoliers Cast of 100 (S) H – 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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Step back in time with Federal Music presents Gilbert & Sullivans light opera The gondoliers Cast of 100 (S) H, a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Federal Music presents Gilbert & Sullivans light opera The gondoliers Cast of 100 (S) H
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A silkscreen poster from the Federal Music Project announces a cast of 100 for The Gondoliers, the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, staged in Ohio in 1936. The Federal Music Project was one of the arts units of the Works Progress Administration, created during the Great Depression to put musicians and performers back to work and bring live music to communities that rarely saw it. Its posters were printed through the WPA's silkscreen workshops, which turned the technique into an inexpensive way to advertise public concerts and productions. The Gondoliers, first staged in London in 1889, is a light comedy about two gondoliers who discover they were switched as infants.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Apr 17 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--Ohio--1930-1940. Sullivan Arthur Sir 1842-1900. Gondoliers. Gilbert W. S. (William Schwenck) 1836-1911. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,673 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 626_Federal_Music_presents_1936 |
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