Can you stop? - Speed and stopping distance - Iowa State Safety Council / designed & – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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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Can you stop? - Speed and stopping distance - Iowa State Safety Council / designed &
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Its title poses the question outright, and the chart beneath it shows how higher speeds lengthen the distance a car travels between a driver's first sight of a hazard and a full stop. The Iowa State Safety Council sponsored the poster, and the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, produced it in silkscreen, a method well suited to inexpensive runs of public-safety posters. Traffic deaths were rising across the country in the 1930s, and posters like this one aimed to give drivers a clear, memorable warning. A date stamp on the back, September 1940, suggests it stayed in circulation several years after its 1936 date.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 16 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Safety--1930-1940. Charts--1930-1940. Automobile driving--Iowa--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,696 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 218_Can_you_stop_Speed_and_1936 |
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