Federal Theatre presents Big blow A drama of the hurricane country by Theodore Pratt – Vintage Poster
(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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Step back in time with Federal Theatre presents Big blow A drama of the hurricane country by Theodore Pratt, a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Federal Theatre presents Big blow A drama of the hurricane country by Theodore Pratt
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The subject sets this poster apart from others in the Federal theater Project series: it advertises a drama of "hurricane country," written by Theodore Pratt, a Florida writer. The Federal theater Project was one of the arts programs of the Works Progress Administration, created in 1935 to employ theater workers during the Depression and to bring low-cost plays to ordinary audiences. Its posters were typically silkscreened in bold, flat color, like this one, so they could be printed cheaply and read quickly from a distance. The date stamped on the back, June 1939, falls the same year Congress cut off the project's funding, which marks how brief its run was.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 288 · Pratt Theodore 1901- Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Hurricanes--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 981 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 684_Federal_Theatre_present_1936 |
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