Habit by Charles C. Stewart – 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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Habit by Charles C. Stewart comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Habit by Charles C. Stewart
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The distinguishing detail here is the place: this poster advertises a production in Colton, a small city in San Bernardino County, California, rather than one of the large urban productions that dominate the collection. The record credits Charles C. Stewart with the title, *Habit*, and the Federal theater Project sponsored the show in the late 1930s. That federal program employed theater workers during the Depression and staged plays in communities across the country, often in towns with no professional theater. The poster was printed in silkscreen, a stencil process that the WPA's Federal Art Project used to produce inexpensive, brightly colored announcements, so its flat areas of color and bold lettering reflect how these works were designed to be read quickly from a street or a storefront window.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| 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--Colton--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,776 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 826_Habit_by_Charles_C_Stew_1937 |
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