City of New York municipal airports No. 1 Floyd Bennett Field - No. 2 North Beach. – Antique 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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This rare vintage poster captures City of New York municipal airports No. 1 Floyd Bennett Field - No. 2 North Beach. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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City of New York municipal airports No. 1 Floyd Bennett Field - No. 2 North Beach.
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Floyd Bennett Field, the city's first municipal airport, opened on Brooklyn's Jamaica Bay in 1931, and this poster sets it beside North Beach in Queens, the site that later became LaGuardia Airport. The silkscreen was produced under the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program that employed artists to make public posters, and it names Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Commissioner of Docks John McKenzie, the officials who oversaw the city's airports. A date stamp on the back reads December 8, 1937, which places it in the late 1930s, when New York was expanding its air facilities.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Dec 8 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). F.H. La Guardia Mayor - John McKenzie Commissioner of Docks. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 142 · Federal Theatre Project (Seattle Wash.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Airplanes--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Airports--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,157 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 56_City_of_New_York_munici_1936 |
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