Battle hymn a new play about John Brown of Harpers Ferry by Michael Blankfort and Mic – Vintage Poster
(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: Battle hymn a new play about John Brown of Harpers Ferry by Michael Blankfort and Mic, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Battle hymn a new play about John Brown of Harpers Ferry by Michael Blankfort and Mic
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Few pictures on this board show the Federal theater Project at work as plainly as this 1936 silkscreen poster for *Battle Hymn*, a New York play by Michael Blankfort and Michael Gold about John Brown. The Federal theater Project was one of the arts programs of the Works Progress Administration, created to put actors, writers and stage crews to work during the Depression, and its posters came from the same federal print units that produced the wider WPA poster series. The play centers on Brown's 1859 raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, an attack that inflamed sectional tensions and helped push the country toward the Civil War.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Blankfort Michael 1907- Gold Michael 1894-1967. Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Brown John 1800-1859 Drama. Historical dramas--1930-1950. Theatrical productions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950. Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Browns Raid 1859. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,740 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 283_Battle_hymn_a_new_play_1936 |
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