The Dance Theatre Young tramps Choreography by Don Oscar Becque music composed by Don – Historic Poster 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.)
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A window into the past: The Dance Theatre Young tramps Choreography by Don Oscar Becque music composed by Don, 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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The Dance Theatre Young tramps Choreography by Don Oscar Becque music composed by Don
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Few posters from the Federal theater Project credit their creators as plainly as this one, which names Don Oscar Becque for the choreography and Donald Pond for the music of *The Young Tramps*. The production belonged to the Dance theater unit of the Federal theater Project, the New York program that employed theater and dance workers during the Depression. Its subject, young men drifting from town to town, reflected the hard times of the 1930s, when many young people were out of work and on the road. The color silkscreen shows the program's bold, eye-catching approach to publicity.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Apr 16 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 251 · Pond Donald. Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Dance--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Tramps--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 984 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 493_The_Dance_Theatre_Young_1936 |
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