Dedication ceremonies--Ida B. Wells Homes ... parade along South Parkway ... Chicago – 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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A window into the past: Dedication ceremonies--Ida B. Wells Homes ... parade along South Parkway ... Chicago, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Dedication ceremonies--Ida B. Wells Homes ... parade along South Parkway ... Chicago
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A 1940 silkscreen poster from the Federal Art Project announces the dedication of the Ida B. Wells Homes, a public housing development on Chicago's South Side, and a parade along South Parkway that marked the occasion. The homes were named for Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the journalist and anti-lynching crusader who spent much of her life in Chicago, and the choice of name tied a new federal housing project to the memory of a Black reformer. The poster's bold color and graphic lettering reflect the Works Progress Administration's wider effort to bring public art into neighborhoods, and it also records a moment when public housing was new and widely promoted as a route to better living conditions.
| Created / published | 1940 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Monogram AG. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Wells-Barnett Ida B. 1862-1931--Commemorations. Building dedications--Illinois--Chicago--1940. Housing--Illinois--Chicago--1940. Urban renewal--Illinois--Chicago--1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,819 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 285_Dedication_ceremoniesId_1940 |
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