Keep your teeth clean – 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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This vintage poster of Keep your teeth clean brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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This color silkscreen was produced by the Federal Art Project's Rochester, New York, unit, and its plain message, "Keep your teeth clean," is its defining feature. The Works Progress Administration's art programs, which ran from 1935 to 1943, used posters to carry public health and civic messages to people who could not afford advertising or large printed campaigns. Silkscreen suited the work because a single stencil could be pulled in several colors, producing inexpensive, durable posters in quantity. A date stamp on the back shows this copy reached a Washington office in September 1938, which places it among the program's late-1930s output.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 19[38]. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 215 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Dental hygiene--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,139 × 1,468 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 503_Keep_your_teeth_clean_1936 |
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