Pennsylvania – 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.)
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A window into the past: Pennsylvania, 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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Few posters on this board treat a whole state as a destination, and this one pairs Pennsylvania's tourism with its farmland, the two subjects the catalog record highlights. Issued in 1936 under the Federal Art Project, it belongs to a wave of regional posters that the Works Progress Administration commissioned to attract visitors and build local pride during the Depression. The color woodcut technique gave the designer a bold, flat style that reads clearly from a distance. The poster is catalogued in the Library of Congress collection and in Christopher DeNoon's study of WPA posters.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : woodcut color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 138 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Tourism--Pennsylvania--1930-1950. Farms--Pennsylvania--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,162 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 590_Pennsylvania_1936 |
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