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Winter sports festival Jr. Chamber of Commerce Recreation Department sponsors – Historic Poster Reproduction

Winter sports festival Jr. Chamber of Commerce Recreation Department sponsors, 1940 — vintage poster
Winter sports festival Jr. Chamber of Commerce Recreation Department sponsors, 1940. Vintage poster from the WPA Posters collection.

(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 winter sports festival in Iowa is the subject here, promoted in 1940 by a Junior Chamber of Commerce recreation department with Federal Art Project sponsorship. The WPA's poster units produced many designs like this one in silkscreen, a method that layered flat, bold color and allowed inexpensive printing in quantity. The date stamped on the back, January 22, 1940, suggests it was printed in the weeks before the event. Posters like this helped local groups advertise community recreation while giving artists paid work during the Depression.

Created / published1940
Medium1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color.
NotesDate stamped on verso: Jan 22 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Promotional goal: U.S. K3. 1940. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press c1987 no. 182 · Federal Art Project sponsor.
SubjectsIce skating--1940. Winter carnivals--Iowa--1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection
Original scan1,536 × 933 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
Reference685_Winter_sports_festival_1940

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