Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games – Historic 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games
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Issued around 1982, two years before the event, this color halftone poster promotes the 23rd Olympiad in Los Angeles. Los Angeles became the host after other cities withdrew from the bidding, and the 1984 Games were run largely on private funding rather than public money, which set them apart from many earlier Olympics. The Soviet Union and several allied nations boycotted the Games in response to the 1980 U.S.-led boycott of Moscow, so the poster appeared while the event was still expected to draw a full international field.
| Created / published | Los Angeles : Knapp Communications Corporation, c1982. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Posters American 1980-1990.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1980-1990. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. K22. 1984. |
| Subjects | Olympic Games (23rd :--1984 :--Los Angeles, Calif.) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,172 × 1,466 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218883 |
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