Popular Price Theatre presents The dictator A farce by Richard Harding Davis / Pratt. – 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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This vintage poster of Popular Price Theatre presents The dictator A farce by Richard Harding Davis / Pratt. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Popular Price Theatre presents The dictator A farce by Richard Harding Davis / Pratt.
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This silkscreen poster advertises a Popular Price theater staging of *The Dictator*, a farce by Richard Harding Davis, the journalist and popular writer known for his war reporting and light fiction. The "popular price" label points to the Federal theater Project, the 1935 New Deal program that employed theater workers during the Depression and sold tickets at low cost so working audiences could attend. Its posters, produced through the Works Progress Administration's art program, often used bold flat color and simple lettering, as this one does. The 1936 date places it during the project's most active years.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 96 · Davis Richard Harding 1864-1916. Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,761 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 876_Popular_Price_Theatre_p_1936 |
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