Pennsylvania – Antique Poster 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Pennsylvania. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Coal miners and vacationers appear together in this 1936 Pennsylvania poster, a pairing that sets it apart from other state views on the board. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, produced posters like this one during the Depression to promote public attractions and travel, and this example is a color woodcut with bold, flat shapes. Its subjects reflect the state's two faces at the time: tourism and the coal mining that supported much of its economy. A date stamp on the back shows the sheet was in circulation by March 1937.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : woodcut color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 140 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Tourism--Pennsylvania--1930-1940. Coal miners--Pennsylvania--1930-1940. Pennsylvania--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,210 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 372_Pennsylvania_1936 |
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