Work with care – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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 rare vintage poster captures Work with care in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Work with care" is a silkscreen poster from 1936, issued under the Federal Art Project, a branch of the Works Progress Administration that employed artists during the Great Depression. Its short slogan packs a safety reminder into a few words, the kind of message aimed at factory and construction crews whose jobs carried real risk of injury in the 1930s. Silkscreen let the Federal Art Project print bold flat colors cheaply in large runs, so posters like this could be pinned up in workplaces, schools and public buildings across the country. The poster is also a useful record of how New Deal agencies used graphic design to speak to ordinary working people.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 231 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Safety--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,236 × 1,525 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 850_Work_with_care_1936 |
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