Indian court Federal Building Golden Gate International Exposition San Francisco 1939 – 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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Indian court Federal Building Golden Gate International Exposition San Francisco 1939 comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Indian court Federal Building Golden Gate International Exposition San Francisco 1939
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The Indian Court at the Federal Building of the Golden Gate International Exposition is the subject here, and the record points to Haida crafts and woven blankets among the works shown. The fair opened in 1939 on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, and its Native American displays presented Indigenous craft to fairgoers. The poster was issued under the Federal Art Project of the Work Projects Administration, the New Deal agency that employed artists through the Depression. Its flat, layered color reflects the silkscreen process the program used to make inexpensive posters.
| Created / published | 1939 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 81 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco Calif.) Indians of North America--Commemoration--California--San Francisco--1930-1940. Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1930-1940. Haida Indians--Arts & crafts--1930-1940. Blankets--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,731 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 253_Indian_court_Federal_Bu_1939 |
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