W.P.A. Federal Theatre presents Sing for your supper a topical musical revue – 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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A window into the past: W.P.A. Federal Theatre presents Sing for your supper a topical musical revue, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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W.P.A. Federal Theatre presents Sing for your supper a topical musical revue
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The poster advertises a Federal theater Project production of *Sing for Your Supper*, a topical musical revue, and its tie to New York is recorded in the subject headings. The Federal theater Project was one of the arts units of the Works Progress Administration, set up in 1935 to employ theater workers during the Depression, and under its director, Hallie Flanagan, it staged inexpensive productions across the country. Revues like this one were built around current events and social issues, which made them popular with audiences and sometimes controversial with officials. The silkscreen color printing was a practical method for mass-producing posters on a tight budget, and the stamped date on the back shows the print was handled and filed years after it was made.
| 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. 101 · Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Musical revues & comedies--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 980 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 743_WPA_Federal_Theatre_pre_1936 |
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