To the ladies – 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 To the ladies, a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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This 1936 silkscreen poster advertises a stage production sponsored by the Federal theater Project, a New Deal program that employed actors, directors, and stagehands after the Depression hit commercial theater. The Project's California units staged plays in cities including Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the WPA's poster division produced silkscreen prints like this one in large runs, using flat areas of bold color that were cheap to reproduce and easy to read from a street corner. Posters like this one were one of the main ways the Project reached audiences who had little money for tickets.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,791 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 879_To_the_ladies_1936 |
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