Certain people of importance – Vintage Poster
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Certain people of importance. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Titled "Certain People of Importance," this 1936 silkscreen poster advertised a production sponsored by the Federal theater Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration that employed actors, directors, designers, and playwrights during the Depression. The record credits Arthur Arent, a playwright closely tied to the project's work. The silkscreen process, which WPA poster units used widely because it was cheap and allowed bold flat color, gives the design its strong shapes. A date stamp on the back reads September 7, 1939, the year Congress ended the Federal theater Project, so the sheet passed through the program's hands during its final months.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 7 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 186 · Arent Arthur. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | People--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,043 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 779_Certain_people_of_impor_1936 |
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