Federal Theatre [presents] Room service – Antique Poster Print
![Federal Theatre [presents] Room service, 1936 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/62/620a977116ac-L.webp)
(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 Federal Theatre [presents] Room service brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Federal Theatre [presents] Room service
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The Federal theater Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, staged this production in San Diego to keep theater workers employed during the Depression. The play being advertised, *Room Service*, is a farce by John Murray and Allen Boretz about a broke producer and his cast who hole up in a hotel room while they wait for money that never arrives. Silkscreen posters like this one were inexpensive to reproduce and were pasted on storefronts and public walls, so the flat color and bold lettering were meant to catch the eye from across a street.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--San Diego--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,798 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 868_Federal_Theatre_present_1936 |
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