Elmhurst Flag Day, June 18, 1939, Du Page County Centennial – Historic Print
(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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Elmhurst Flag Day, June 18, 1939, Du Page County Centennial 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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Elmhurst Flag Day, June 18, 1939, Du Page County Centennial
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Made for a Flag Day event in Elmhurst, Illinois, on June 18, 1939, this poster ties a local patriotic observance to the centennial of DuPage County, which was organized in 1839. It was produced as a color silkscreen by the WPA Federal Art Project in Chicago, one of the Depression-era New Deal programs that employed artists to make posters for public events and services. The record credits the design to an artist named Beauparlant. Such posters were printed in small runs and pasted up around towns, so surviving copies show how communities advertised their celebrations in the late 1930s.
| Created / published | c. 1939 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print on board, poster, silkscreen, color |
| Notes | Beauparlant. WPA Federal Art Project, Chicago, Ill. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, Library of Congress |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 2,500 × 3,698 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-214623 |
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