Planned housing fights disease – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Planned housing fights disease. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few posters of the period tie city planning so directly to germs, and this one, a silkscreen print from the Federal Art Project's New York office, makes the link its whole argument: good housing as public health. The New York City Housing Authority, under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Commissioner Langdon W. Post, commissioned it in the late 1930s, when the city was building some of the first publicly financed housing in the country. Slum conditions, overcrowding and tuberculosis were a common pairing in public debate then, which helps explain why the agency wanted its message aimed at disease rather than only at architecture.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). New York City Housing Authority - Fiorello H. La Guardia Mayor - Langdon W. Post Commissoner. · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | New York City Housing Authority--Public relations--1930-1940. Microorganisms--1930-1940. Diseases--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. City planning--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Housing--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,208 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 360_Planned_housing_fights_1936 |
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