When attending the World's Fair, visit beautiful Sea Cliff 250 ft. altitude : No mosquitos. – Antique Print
![When attending the World's Fair, visit beautiful Sea Cliff 250 ft. altitude : No mosquitos., [New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, Dis. 4, [1938 or 1939] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/31/3111fa8e48a2-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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A window into the past: When attending the World's Fair, visit beautiful Sea Cliff 250 ft. altitude : No mosquitos., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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When attending the World's Fair, visit beautiful Sea Cliff 250 ft. altitude : No mosquitos.
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Sea Cliff, a village on Long Island's North Shore, is the subject of this silkscreen, and its poster makes an unusual pitch: a seaside bluff village at about 250 feet, touted as free of mosquitoes. The village sponsored the design, which was produced under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in New York. It was printed to draw visitors from the 1939 New York World's Fair, then in its first season at Flushing Meadows, to a day trip on the Sound. WPA posters of this kind were often made by silkscreen, a method that suited bold flat color and simple lettering.
| Created / published | [New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, Dis. 4, [1938 or 1939] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Travel posters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Feb 2 1939. Sponsored by the village of Sea Cliff. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 131 |
| Subjects | New York World's Fair--(1939-1940)--Buildings. Exhibition buildings--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Waterfronts--New York (State)--Sea Cliff--1930-1940. Tourism--New York (State)--Sea Cliff--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,164 × 1,466 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218897 |
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