Olympic bobsled run, Lake Placid Up where winter calls to play. – Historic Reproduction
![Olympic bobsled run, Lake Placid Up where winter calls to play., NYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2f/2f2d32331cba-L.webp)
(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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Olympic bobsled run, Lake Placid Up where winter calls to play. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Olympic bobsled run, Lake Placid Up where winter calls to play.
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Few American places are as tied to winter sport as Lake Placid in the Adirondacks, where the bobsled run built for the 1932 Winter Olympics is still in use. This color silkscreen, made by the WPA Federal Art Project in New York City in the late 1930s, pairs the run with flags and the line "Up where winter calls to play" to invite visitors to the village. The WPA poster unit helped establish silkscreen as a practical method for printing public notices in quantity. This copy carries a February 1938 date stamp on its back, which places it in the middle of the program's efforts to promote local recreation.
| Created / published | NYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Posters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Feb 9 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Bobsleds--New York (State)--Lake Placid--1930-1940. Sports & recreation facilities--New York (State)--Lake Placid--1930-1940. Flags--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,762 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215039 |
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