Fire wrecks a forest – Vintage Print
(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.)
Description
This vintage poster of Fire wrecks a forest brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Fire wrecks a forest
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Cigarettes and a burning forest are the two subjects tied to this 1936 silkscreen poster, which the Federal theater Project sponsored under the federal New Deal arts programs. Its message is fire prevention aimed at careless smokers, a common target of forest protection campaigns in the 1930s. Silkscreen let the WPA poster units print bold, flat-colored designs in large runs at low cost, and that technique shapes the poster's stark look. A date stamp on the back, January 13, 1939, shows the print was handled and filed a few years after it was first made.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jan 13 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press c1987 no. 230. · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Fire prevention--1930-1940. Forest fires--1930-1940. Cigarettes--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 988 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 351_Fire_wrecks_a_forest_1936 |
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